hijacked again

Why I don’t go to rallies

The last “anti-war” event I attended was in November. We were all of thirty seconds into things when the first speaker piously informed us that this “isn’t just about war, but about justice for the workers” (with “justice” tacitly defined as the Green agenda on “economic democracy”). Although I don’t endorse that agenda, the fact that my warm body was present allowed the speaker to co-opt my presence as an endorsement of something other than the rally’s purported purpose.