Insurrection Anyone?
18th October 2025
Saturday, October 18, you might have heard, is this year’s culminating “No Kings” protest demo all over land.
We’ve been to a couple of these curious spectacles since springtime here in the Hudson River Valley, in the next town over.
The crowd there was just about entirely made up of aging Boomers, joyfully re-living the halcyon days of the Vietnam protests. It was kind of like a street production of the old Broadway hit Hair, only with a cast of 75-year-olds. Let the sun shine in! But this rural, small-town corner of America is overwhelmingly geriatric. There is next to nothing for young people to do around here, so they flee at the earliest opportunity. The catch is: turns out that opportunity is rather scarce elsewhere, too.