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It’s impossible for me personally because roughly everyone I know falls into one of two camps
they’re comfortable and their status quo isn’t challenged. They know where their next 9 meals are coming from, and aren’t at Risk of losing employment/residence/ability to feed themselves.
living pay check to pay check, constant fear of not being able to make rent/bills/groceries.
You can’t organize group 1 because they have something to lose and aren’t personally affected. You can’t organize group 2 because they don’t have time, and something like getting arrested at a protest could cost their job/residence/next meal, even when the charges are dropped.
Maybe someone more intelligent and charismatic than me has a shot, but I don’t know how to tell group 1 to risk their safety and the safety of their families for others, or group 2 to risk homelessness, all relying on trust in others.
Do you really think #2 isn't something that every freedom fighter has dealt with? They don't stop protesting because their lives are shit. They do it because of it.
Yeah but #2 doesn’t see itself as a unified group. Differences in ethnicity and culture which have been stoked into rift like divides by republicans, who have been doing so for decades, have driven #2 apart.
I’m sure you’ve seen the cookie pile meme with the rich man, the black man and the white man.