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Christine Welter strikes a somber pose as part of a “die-in” demonstration on Castro Street in front of the Kaiser Permanente facility in downtown Mountain View Tuesday night.
With mock headstones, red roses and the Raging Grannies providing a chorus of mourners, Together We Stand Palo Alto/Mountain View members aimed to make a pointed comment about the latest effort to repeal Obamacare, the Graham-Cassidy bill. In a serendipitous bit of timing, Senate Republicans dropped plans to try to pass the bill this week, after failing to come up with enough votes.
In the photos: Not one person who pays for her or his own healthcare out of pocket to know what a disaster Obamacare is.
This is just a useless, feel-good exercise by the participants. All sound and fury, signifying nothing. Local demonstrations don’t affect US or State politics one little itty bitty bit unless they are urban riots. Local demonstrations affect local politics. I suggest to these people that if they are really concerned with making a difference, they confine their efforts to trying to affect MV City Council’s decisions. “All politics are local.” Tip O’Neill famously said that. “A man’s gotta know his limitations.” Clint Eastwood said that.
If these demonstrators are serious they will put their money, not my money, where their mouth is. Lying down on public property proves nothing.
lying down on public sidewalks in Mountain View downtown proves that as a city we keep the streets clean