Many say do not attend the swearing in of Electoral College President on January 20th 2017. Instead DO ATTEND IN DROVES but to protest turn your backs to the ceremony. That will be a bigger statement than not attending.
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out.
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out.
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out.
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak for me.
(Poem written by Pastor Martin Niemoller about the cowardice of German (now read U.S.) intellectuals following the Nazis' rise to power and subsequent purging of their chosen targets, group after group.)
Why is this important?
The Russian influence and their candidate.