I was interviewed by a CNN crew at the Rally to Restore Sanity yesterday. He wanted to find a theme. Why did I come? What were people trying to say with their attendance? What did it mean? Was it politically important? Would it increase turnout on Tuesday?
Funny, none of those questions occured to me when I made the decision to go. And, I would bet that few of those things were top of mind for the folks I jammed on the metro with at 9:00 am.
Mostly, these folks seemed to want to be among the reasonable. They wanted to show up somewhere where the shouting wasn't. They said please and thank you as they packed in more tightly to allow a few extra folks to get on. We congratulated ourselves on our manners even as we grumbled a bit at the Smithsonian platform where the metro police had a barricade up to keep half the train from going to the mall side exit.