Things ain’t what they appear. A Washington Post analysis of the crowd at DC’s March for Our Lives shows that the youth were akin to albino gorillas. They were there but swallowed in a sea of adults, mostly middle-aged, college educated women.
While only slightly less skewed to lefty activism, last Saturday’s crowd would still be simpatico with the lefty, anti-Trump hordes of recent memory. Here are some of the numbers: 70% women, 72% BA degree, 10% under age 18, 49 average age of adults. The high number of BA degrees shouldn’t warm your heart since today they have little to do with wisdom.
Not surprisingly, following the political DNA of other lefty gabfests, 79% self-identified as left and 89% voted for Hillary.
Even more interesting was the dissection of the first-timers, 12% of the swarm. They were even more aroused by “peace” or anti-Trumpism. The former is a staple of lefty activism since Vietnam; the latter is the incitement du jour; both have only a glancing relation to gun control.
The uproar after Parkland might have some relation to its location. Broward County went for Hillary by 35% (Ballotpedia.org). Now we’re in California territory. Remember the Sutherland Springs, Texas, church massacre in Nov. 2017 – 47 casualties, 20 dead? That went down the memory hole.
Both episodes were evil on parade. But our legacy media chew on stories longer if they are birthed in certain places, and are pitches right into the leftist wheelhouse.
While the young-ins are a great face, many of the usual suspects of adults lurk behind the scenes.
A partial gallery of adult contributors to the collection plate for this latest lefty spectacle:
After all the speechifying, would any of it do any good?
A dose of reality:
RogerG
** “Here’s who actually attended the March for Our Lives. (No, it wasn’t mostly young people.)”, Dana R. Fisher, The Washington Post, 3/28/2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/03/28/heres-who-actually-attended-the-march-for-our-lives-no-it-wasnt-mostly-young-people/?utm_term=.77bc981ec327