Reply #22: I attended the big anti-war demo in Los Angeles on Feb 15, 2003. Even

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organizations that typically under-count attendance at anti-establishment demos counted attendance at this one at 10s of thousands (and I think the LAPD may have estimated it at 100,000). It is almost impossible to get 100,000 people together in LA to do anything, so I thought for sure this was it.

I honestly thought that would be the start of the revolution but I was wrong.

I also was present on Wilshire Boulevard in Korea Town on May 1, 2005 for the immigrants' rights march when some 500,000 marched down Wilshire Blvd. It is a sight I will never forget.

I thought I was seeing the start of the revolution but I was wrong. (To this day, though, I remain convinced that the movement's organizers missed a chance to turn that May Day into a revolution.)

The point is that in each case I was incorrect. So I have learned to be more cautious in making predictions and that I am often prone to project my own hidden desires onto what I am seeing.