Dissension

There was a protest in downtown Bothell on Saturday, complete with drums (because, for some reason I have yet to fathom, no lefty protest is complete without them). I happened by as things were winding down, but still managed to get a few shots of people before they dispersed.

And disperse they did; an hour later, you wouldn't have realized that anything had happened. Which I guess is the best outcome, in a way. It's better than the lingering smell of tear gas and the police still being engaged in removing barricades and transporting the arrested.

I'm not a big one for protests; I don't consider them to be effective. There are, I think, better ways to change people's minds. But I suspect that they both require more effort and bring less camaraderie than being in a large group of like-minded people. Which may be the real reason why I don't see myself attending them; I don't see the world enough like the people who do to feel that I'm among "my people."