Protesting at the lights
“Most Saturdays, you’ll find me standing at Peterborough’s main intersection at the Visibility Event, holding a sign and an American flag in support of democracy. I go because I want to be able to look back on this period and know I did my small part.
To the drivers who honk and wave: thank you. You may not realize how much that brief gesture means. You’re standing up, too, and you send a wave of positive energy through all of us on the corner.
To those who yell or give us a thumbs down, I feel something closer to sadness than anger. At the risk of sounding arrogant, I wish I could share with all of you what I’ve been reading. I’m lucky enough to be retired, which gives me the time to follow many news sources carefully, and the volume of misinformation circulating in some outlets is genuinely startling.
Our president cries “fake news” at every turn. I’ve come to suspect it’s projection — that he repeats the charge so loudly because he knows where the lying actually lives.