Well, shoot, do you have an address or phone number for the Soros protest fund? My friends and I all paid out of our own pockets to go to the march and it would be nice to get reimbursement or something.
Making it easy for young women to get good sex education and contraceptives is easily one of the best investments the U.S. government could make. Every time a society has tried it, it has produced good results across the board: reductions in teen pregnancies, abortions, and venereal disease, and improved educational outcomes and economic growth.
And best of all, it is moral to permit human beings to make their own choices about their own bodies.
Unfortunately, the incoming administration and Congress have collectively said some pretty dumb things, and tried to pass some pretty dumb laws, against these ideas.
There are also potentially government issues related to race and ethnicity and sexual orientation and gender, and I think a lot of people marched with those in mind too.
The fundamental question of the Trump presidency is: who is going to own the narrative? Who gets to decide what is true, what is real, what matters, and what the government should do or not do?
The purpose of a mass protest is to seize the narrative, or at least to demonstrate that Trump does not own it. The larger the gathering, the greater its demonstrative power. Each person who decides to go knows that they are individually only a tiny little drop, metaphorically. But they hope to help make a big flood.
Most of Congress is up for re-election in 2018. The President is up for re-election in 2020. Contrary to popular belief, politicians (including Trump) do care a lot about what people think, and they will change, moderate, or slow their efforts if they get the sense that they'll lose an election over it.
This strategy is not new or unique. Republicans used it to great effect in 2009-2010, killing the public option out of Obamacare, and blocking the cap-and-trade global warming bill--even though the Democrats held the White House and Congress.
Can't speak for above, but for me, establishing an axis of opposition to Trump and his agenda, as well as attacking the narrative that he has any kind of popular mandate, which is a narrative his campaign and administration has pushed ever since barely winning the presidency.