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The march to nowhereBy Joan SwirskyA day or two before the inauguration of President Donald J. Trump on January 20, 2017, I watched a reporter interviewing five attractive, intelligent, articulate women from California, who were all making the long cross-country trip to the Women's March on Washington on January 21st.Amazingly, not one woman was able to express a persuasive or even rational reason for the trip, but instead resorted to time-worn platitudes, bromides, and leftist talking points about "unity" and "solidarity" and "getting the message out." Um...what message?At the March itself, I was struck by the fact that women who pride themselves on their intelligence resorted to reading their statements, never veering a syllable off the scripts that were clearly written for them – scripts, by the way, that were not only boilerplate and banal, but shockingly blasphemous.Madonna, punctuating her statement with foul-mouthed obscenities, looked down at her script, then lifted her head to speak into the microphone. "I'm angry." Pause. Again, she looked at her script, then read: "I'm outraged." (Very difficult lines to memorize, to be sure). Pause. Again, back to the script where she read about her fantasy of "blowing up the White House."More: http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/swirsky/170202
