Tickld has been self proclaimed “the ultimate procrastination” website. It can be that but the creators James and Kyle started something more than that; they organized an outlet for humor of all shapes and intentions. Humor brings us together and gets the proper chemicals flowing in our body. The most recent post on Tickld that brought me closer to people was titled, WTF is Wrong With Americans? This Guy Nails it.
The post looks at a very simple explanation of how we funnel money into other avenues and not into our schools. It is entertaining, satyrical, and gets to the point in a humorous way.
Unfortunately I wasn’t able to witness everything happening in Madison, WI in the months of February and March but when I arrived into Madison, I wanted to make sure I got the feeling of what was happening over those two months. Thankfully, my friend Alyssa was in the middle of it which made her the perfect tour guide for this video. As you watch it, keep in mind that it was the middle of winter, covered in snow with an average temperature of 26 degrees. Over those two months, there were hundreds of thousands of people with the largest protest maxing out at close to a hundred thousand people. That was the protest where the state farmers came to support and brought their tractors right up to the capital and drove around it the entire day.
Also keep in mind what this means to have a hundred thousand people in this space. Over the last five months, we have been reading and hearing about hundreds of protests in the Middle East from places like Tunisia, Yemen, Egypt, Libya and so on. The protests in Madison were as large and in some moments, larger than those. Americans will rally too and we can’t forget what we can do when we come together.
In this video there are a couple references that are made and just in case you would like to check them out, here are a few links.
