The protests should be shutting down the country … not violently … peaceful protest refusing to use your work to continue running the country.
If enough people stood up and just said ‘enough is enough, we’re not working any more until this government changes or becomes more responsible’ … then things might actually change.
You’re on the path now … you can say that you can’t protest because you’ll lose your job or livelihood and that you have to make ends meet but the way things are going … if you do nothing, you’re still going to lose everything eventually.
Can’t afford not to. Losing health care, value of money, retirements, farms, etc, etc. If everyone keeps their heads in the sand they’ll be broke anyway.
Mass social change requires protests as a baseline of dissent. They should be menacing, but remain only a threat to power, which is their primary purpose. A non-peaceful protest is unskilled and uncoordinated use of violence,and gives authoritarians an alibi for escalating repression. This is why they send in agent provocateurs.
A march turned mob is a huge error. You need coordination and planning for revolutionary violence, even mass rebellion.
In between the necessary peaceful marches and that hopefully avoidable bloody rebellion, there is the opportunity for a lot of targeted activism, based on the leverage that the threat provides. It’s also a period of targeted sabotage and vandalism, as well as widespread passive resistance. More importantly, it is a delay in which to network, organize, and develop coordinated strategies. Fail to plan, plan to fail.
This way, there is a time tested path to rule by the people, AKA democracy, without violence. Failure of this method is the violent insurrection, which can lead to interesting things like Nepal (though the violence was VERY disciplined, despite appearances). It can also lead to Pol Pot.
We’ve had some of the largest nation-wide protests in our history, the news just won’t cover it
The protests should be shutting down the country … not violently … peaceful protest refusing to use your work to continue running the country.
If enough people stood up and just said ‘enough is enough, we’re not working any more until this government changes or becomes more responsible’ … then things might actually change.
You’re on the path now … you can say that you can’t protest because you’ll lose your job or livelihood and that you have to make ends meet but the way things are going … if you do nothing, you’re still going to lose everything eventually.
You can’t shut down a country that is essentially 50 different countries in one. The US is just too big and segmented.
People can’t financially afford that. They are paycheque to paycheque.
Can’t afford not to. Losing health care, value of money, retirements, farms, etc, etc. If everyone keeps their heads in the sand they’ll be broke anyway.
“Peaceful protest” is a psy-op.
Tell that to Gandhi. Comments like yours are the psy-op.
Ghandiji was non-violent but his cause was also shared/backed by violent groups that had frequent success violently driving out their oppressors.
Well, yes and no.
Mass social change requires protests as a baseline of dissent. They should be menacing, but remain only a threat to power, which is their primary purpose. A non-peaceful protest is unskilled and uncoordinated use of violence,and gives authoritarians an alibi for escalating repression. This is why they send in agent provocateurs.
A march turned mob is a huge error. You need coordination and planning for revolutionary violence, even mass rebellion.
In between the necessary peaceful marches and that hopefully avoidable bloody rebellion, there is the opportunity for a lot of targeted activism, based on the leverage that the threat provides. It’s also a period of targeted sabotage and vandalism, as well as widespread passive resistance. More importantly, it is a delay in which to network, organize, and develop coordinated strategies. Fail to plan, plan to fail.
This way, there is a time tested path to rule by the people, AKA democracy, without violence. Failure of this method is the violent insurrection, which can lead to interesting things like Nepal (though the violence was VERY disciplined, despite appearances). It can also lead to Pol Pot.
To be pedantic: I think it’s “agents provocateur” like attorneys general. Could be wrong
Nah you are correct, but the autocorrect is 'murrican and gaslit me.