US protesters’ silence on other issues is telling

AM I alone in perceiving the hypocrisy of those taking part in the marches against US President Donald Trump?

Do these people not realise the US election is over, the democratic outcome has been achieved and they must live with the result, albeit in opposition, for the next four years? The ostensible reason for the preponderance of women in this activity leads one to believe their justification is something Trump said in the heat of an electoral battle.

But where are these marchers when real discrimination against women takes place year in and year out? Why are there no marches in support of women in the Middle East and parts of Africa where women’s social status is far below what it was in the Western world back in the 19th century?

Flip through the pages of any Western newspaper and you will find evidence of particular concern for women’s rights. Yet it is the US, Europe and other democratic, developed countries that have perfected feminist policies enshrined in their law.

Those in the West who find their political expression in marches are silent on the plight of women in other countries. I strongly suspect these pseudo liberals do not care about women, independent judiciaries, minorities, democracy, gays or almost anything else for which they march. I have never read of a single march against the insulting, sometimes barbaric, treatment of women in Afghanistan, northern Nigeria or Saudi Arabia.

I am not competent to know the reason for this strange phenomenon but I can speculate, at the same time trying not to compromise my own finely honed liberal tendencies.

I believe there is a conspiracy, perhaps unstated and unorganised but real nevertheless, that seeks to overthrow Western, especially JudeoChristian and capitalist values, and finds its expression in ridiculous, hypocritical activism.