Obviously people are already protesting - I’m planning on going to one tomorrow - but in the face of something this big a protest just doesn’t seem like enough.
This is just my own stupid ramble, so feel free to ignore it, but the main problem with protesting is that the American left (and most of the western world) has deluded itself into believing that protesting is a goal on its own, like: ‘if enough people show up and wave a flag, people in power will listen and things will solve themselves’, as if it was some magic ritual. That’s highly ineffective, if whoever is in power can ignore a protest and wait for everyone to go home, that’s exactly what they’ll do.
For a protest to be effective, it needs to be threatening. ‘There’s a lot of us and we’re angry at what you’re doing. If you don’t listen, we’ll start using force’.
There’s a lot of us and we’re angry at what you’re doing. If you don’t listen, we’ll start using force.
Yeah, I get that protests/rallies are more a show of solidarity than actual action. That’s why I asked the question! I’ll definitely be sniffing around to see what the unions are up to, although US unions are pretty toothless at the moment :(
This is just my own stupid ramble, so feel free to ignore it, but the main problem with protesting is that the American left (and most of the western world) has deluded itself into believing that protesting is a goal on its own, like: ‘if enough people show up and wave a flag, people in power will listen and things will solve themselves’, as if it was some magic ritual. That’s highly ineffective, if whoever is in power can ignore a protest and wait for everyone to go home, that’s exactly what they’ll do.
For a protest to be effective, it needs to be threatening. ‘There’s a lot of us and we’re angry at what you’re doing. If you don’t listen, we’ll start using force’.
Join a union!
Yeah, I get that protests/rallies are more a show of solidarity than actual action. That’s why I asked the question! I’ll definitely be sniffing around to see what the unions are up to, although US unions are pretty toothless at the moment :(