“When I say ‘Tax the rich’, you say ‘Seize our future!’, okay? Good. Louder.”

Amplified by a bullhorn, local assemblymember Sarahana Shrestha leads a chant on North Front Street in Uptown Kingston.

Her intended crowd is a tidy group, just a fraction of the turnout expected at the original “Tax the Rich, Fill the Cuts” rally, moved to Saturday because of flood warnings and torrential downpours throughout the Hudson Valley.

“We should have held this over across the street from the farmers’ market,” a rally supporter in a pork-pie hat groused. “That would have increased the turnout.”

He had a point. Kingston’s Saturday market is always crowded, and most of those drawn to it nurture at least the appearance of tolerance towards progressive causes.

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