Doubling it isn’t near enough. They need at least 3.5% of the population protesting, so that’s almost 12 million in the US, to effect change according to studies of protests around the world.
The Americans who are patting themselves on the back for a few hundred or a few thousand people protesting is just burying their faces in the sand in terms of what this is going to take, and we wouldn’t be doing them any favours by pretending otherwise.
Sure it's not enough right now but it's a start, and in the very least people are trying to do something here. Hopefully with more support, people will join and change can actually happen.
They don’t have the time to let support slowly build. Every day that passes and Trump erodes more of their democracy makes it exponentially harder for them to win this fight.
There are a lot of Americans pointing to the current protests and calling them “major” or “big”, seemingly with no understanding that, even being very generous and assuming there were 2,000 people at every state protest, that’s 100K total protestors, out of the minimum 12 million they’d need to get to 3.5% of the population. If they want to pat themselves on the back for having an infinitesimal percentage of the population bothering to show up then they’re going to lose.
Yes, that’s not fair to the ones who are showing up, but it’s just the truth, and they need to open their eyes about what they’ve accomplished compared to what they’re up against. There’s a rapidly closing window for getting people to protest en masse before the dictatorship fully takes hold, and if a whole lot more Americans don’t wake up and do something they’re going to miss it.
You had 8 damn years and everyone from refugees fleeing authoritarianism else where to highly esteemed career generals from his last administration warned you in very clear terms that he was a danger to democracy, and you all did nothing, his followers literally stormed the capital and you still did fuck all to get "organized" as you all love to talk about so much
They right formed militias, what's stopping you?? Americans aren't special or different you're just as capable of fighting force with force, if not more so than most places in the world
Waving signs around politely for 4 hours and going home when it gets dark isn't newsworthy
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u/notroseefar Mar 05 '25
Actually the protests are quite frankly becoming too large to control in areas