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Why People Who Never Protested Are Showing Up · Real Patriotism

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  Power.
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  >> What kind of power?
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  >> Power.
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  >> What kind of power?
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  >> People power.
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  >> What kind of power?
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  >> Evil power.
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  >> What kind of power?
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  >> PEOPLE POWER.
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  >> WHAT KIND OF POWER?
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  >> PEOPLE POWER.
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  >> What kind of power?
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  >> People power.
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  >> What kind of power?
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  >> People power.
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  There's a festive atmosphere today. The
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  first No Kings felt like an eruption of
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  of anger and fear almost. And here,
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  third, No Kings, people feeling a little
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  hopeful, if you can use that word.
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  People are feeling like the country is
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  waking up and the Democratic Party is
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  getting its act together and that this
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  movement has made a difference. Why? Why
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  are you doing this?
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  >> Oh, yeah.
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  >> I think it's important. I This isn't a
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  partisan thing. I think all Americans
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  should be supporting our democracy and I
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  think there are a lot of messages that
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  are being put out by this uh protest,
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  but I think it's for us to say all
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  together that we believe it and we love
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  our democracy and we want to keep it.
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  >> WHAT KIND OF POWER?
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  >> PEOPLE POWER.
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  >> WHAT KIND OF POWER?
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  >> PEOPLE POWER.
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  >> WHAT KIND OF POWER?
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  >> PEOPLE POWER.
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  >> SO you're come from a military family.
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  Yeah.
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  >> Is your service important to you in your
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  in the way you think of yourself as a
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  person, as a citizen?
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  >> Yeah. Yeah.
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  >> Yeah.
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  >> That you do. There's a sense of pride,
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  you know, in a in the country
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  for the United States.
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  >> And now here you are protesting.
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  >> And I've never protested before, you
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  know, for other presidents that have
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  been in office.
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  >> You You're not a regular protester?
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  >> No. We've been together for 40 years and
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  he's never been political ever about
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  anything until DJT. We've had
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  conversations between us about feeling
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  helpless.
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  >> And I think everybody here when they're
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  isolated in their own little world feel
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  helpless. And when we can all come
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  together like this and just look around
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  and be surrounded by people. All of the
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  signs you see at this protest, all the
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  costumes, all the getups, they're
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  homemade. And that tells you something.
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  It tells you this is not a centrally
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  organized event. These are people coming
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  out on their own, finding each other,
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  and raising their voices. And this event
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  here on the mall, this is just one event
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  in the Washington area. They're all
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  across Washington and all across the
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  country, too.
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  This is Boston. Look at that. We'll
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  continue to follow these rallies
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  throughout the day here on MSNBC.
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  Wow.
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  [music]
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  There's [music] something here. But
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  also, there's a lot of people who are
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  disgusted enough that they're going to
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  come out now, whereas before they
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  didn't. They weren't disgusted enough.
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  It was like, "Oh, well, other people do
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  it." But now, everybody wants to do this
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  and they want to get out because you
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  want change
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  >> and that sense of solidarity, right, of
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  people coming together.
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  >> Yes. Solidarity.
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  >> I hear from people a lot that they feel
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  when they aren't together, helpless,
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  depressed. It's a it's a despair. And
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  this is a remedy. This is like medicine.
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  >> Absolutely. Joy.
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  >> It's a remedy.
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  >> Does it feel to you like like things are
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  rebalancing at all or or maybe do you
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  have do you have more hope now than you
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  might have a year ago? And I do feel
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  that as we get closer and closer to this
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  next election, if if it's a fair
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  election, uh I think we'll have our
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  chance to [music] um to show that the
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  balance of power works.
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  >> [music]