U.S. protests shrink while antiwar sentiment grows

It saddens me to read this. My ex-husband and I were activists for the mentally ill starting back in 1989 and we had the same problem that anti-war protestors are having...ridiculous in-fighting. Instead of remembering what we were supposed to be united against and what we were fighting for, we spent most of the time bickering amongst ourselves about who would get to speak first, what to write on protest signs, and travel arrangements. At the time, we thought this was due to the fact that we were mental health activists and some of us had mental illness or were recovering from it. But, as this story shows it wasn't mental illness that crushed our movement. It was our egos and the all human need to be right...

The thinning crowds stand in contrast to the antiwar protests of the
Vietnam era, which grew as the war progressed.

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