If you're currently in the U.S. I'm sure you heard about the "Rally to Restore Sanity" that was held at the National Mall in Washington D.C. this past Saturday. Two political satirists hosted the event (Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert) for (as they state on the official website):
Ours is a rally for the people who�ve been too busy to go to rallies, who actually have lives and families and jobs (or are looking for jobs) � not so much the Silent Majority as the Busy Majority. If we had to sum up the political view of our participants in a single sentence� we couldn�t. That�s sort of the point.
You can read a review of the rally on the N.Y.Times (and other papers), but I'd like to share a more personal view with you. My dad's brother and his family flew up from Florida to D.C. to participate in this event, and I asked my aunt if she could tell me something about the experience and let me share it with you here:
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