Where are the nationwide protests? The national strikes against the destruction of what is left of U.S. democracy? As for the eerie complacency of the Democrats, it is hardly surprising why there is such a huge loss of trust in the leadership of the Democratic Party.
I think the worry here is that the protests are only attracting tens of thousands in each venue, and a few million at most nation-wide. These numbers should be higher. 75 million people voted for Harris. Another 2 million voted for third parties. And 90+ million stayed home. Big cities should have hundreds of thousands or even millions in the street, and imagine what would happen if a cool 100m turned out nation-wide tomorrow.
The worry is that we won’t get even 10% of those numbers, and a nation of 330m will be led to Fascism by 77.5m people actively supporting it and another 90m just whistling past the grave.
Protests help with the world view, but it won’t make a difference with this administration. The thing that could work is a nationwide work stoppage. But that is a lot harder to pull off.
We still need more tRump voters to see what his actions are doing to them. That’s the only way they’ll get it. When it affects them.
They might not even get it when it affects them. As long as the leopards eat their enemies faces, they’re OK with having the leopards eat their faces as well. Hate is a powerful motivator, unfortunately.
They can also just deny that their own faces are being eaten at all. They still totally have a pension and great benefits. They only lost two teeth from deflouridated water! The value of their investment portfolio went up from $200k all the way to $50k! The mortgage company is just making a mistake by foreclosing on my house, don’t worry, Trump will give it back to me soon!
Denial is how they’ll live the rest of their entire, miserable lives.
I mean, there have been some of the largest protests in American history. There’s really no reason for the administration to care though. Public approval doesn’t get them anything. If a third of the country protested tomorrow they would just dispute the numbers and carry on.
If your goal is to create a white Christian ethnostate and never give up power, people you already don’t care about asking you not to isn’t going to stop you.
We need more people taking more action, but protesting is just how you communicate that there are numbers to make it safe to resist. The protests themselves won’t do anything.
An important and oft overlooked point about protest, messaging about the power and safety of numbers.
This!!! Nobody of any actual note on the left is pretending protests are the solution or the end goal right now, on the contrary I think people ALL across the political spectrum are standing up and asking the people around them whether this is existential moment and noticing who can meet their gaze and not cower in centrism and the status quo.
This is the political function of these protests.
So what’s the next step? How many people do you think think there needs to be a next step? How many are willing to strike for this? Do you see the problem now? The fascists are running at full speed towards their finishing line and the American people are still dawdling at the starting line.