"Why Are We Marching Anyway?"

    "Whatever the cause – whether it’s a No Kings Rally or a display of LGBTQ+ Pride – there are numerous personal reasons to march, protest, and demonstrate. Some are based upon our own self-worth and personal values while others are guaranteed to produce frustration, burn-out, and bitterness in the long run.
    Further, if we take on leadership roles – particularly for demographics with a history of being marginalized and demeaned in a culture – various conscious or unconscious expectations we’ve attached to leadership, whether healthy (for us) or unhealthy, are likely to eventually surface.
    Sociological observers can almost predict the problems that result when anyone takes on activist leadership of oppressed groups who have a history of hurt and pain. So many movements and institutions seem to run into leadership issues when they're at their greatest strength. And the result is many of those issues cripple the very movements.
    People aren’t used to examining their own past unhealed hurts and pain that are likely to be triggered when they don’t get from their leading the emotional needs that probably haven’t been fulfilled by their other pursuits either.
    It’s also not unusual that those similar unmet, unexamined personal needs aren’t likely to be met by the activism of the non-leading participants...."

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