Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.
Gonna be real, imo 3.5% is bullshit, like 5% of the country participated in BLM and all it accomplished was trump lost reelection. Not saying stop but this shit isn’t magically over because 12 million people protest, there’s no magic number you hit and fascism is doneand we shouldn’t act like 12 million is it.
It has to be used the right way too. If you just hold a sign and go home then nothing changes. That’s the consensus building and demands phase. When you have critical mass and demands aren’t met you burn down police stations and setup autonomous zones. The problem with both of those wasn’t that they happened it was that the people fell for the media’s demonization of them.
There’s stopping Trump and then there’s stopping fascism. We can probably do the first one with a consistent 3-5% of support. Stopping fascism will take much more because it requires reworking our government and economy in ways that the right, at least, will vehemently oppose. Trump’s biggest blunder is doing too much too soon. His base wants fascism, they just wished it would be less painful than it is.
Gonna be real, imo 3.5% is bullshit, like 5% of the country participated in BLM and all it accomplished was trump lost reelection. Not saying stop but this shit isn’t magically over because 12 million people protest, there’s no magic number you hit and fascism is doneand we shouldn’t act like 12 million is it.
It has to be used the right way too. If you just hold a sign and go home then nothing changes. That’s the consensus building and demands phase. When you have critical mass and demands aren’t met you burn down police stations and setup autonomous zones. The problem with both of those wasn’t that they happened it was that the people fell for the media’s demonization of them.
There’s stopping Trump and then there’s stopping fascism. We can probably do the first one with a consistent 3-5% of support. Stopping fascism will take much more because it requires reworking our government and economy in ways that the right, at least, will vehemently oppose. Trump’s biggest blunder is doing too much too soon. His base wants fascism, they just wished it would be less painful than it is.
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Organized, consistent and ya you’re right we probably need 10% of the country protesting by the summer.
Civili rights movement protests. not holding little signs and speeches.
If 3.5% can make a change, then 3.5% can also work in opposing that change.
3.5% can probably do it if such a change is unopposed. But it isn’t unopposed.