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It's easy to think protests don't matter.
They do. Just not directly.
8 million people in the streets aren't going to make literal traitors admit they were wrong and willingly leave their positions.
But 8 million people in the streets sends a signal to everyone else that the opinions they already hold about this treasonous government are valid and that they are not alone.
It's a snowball effect. It'll get bigger, if we're persistent. Gotta keep the momentum building.
My local protest had, easily, twice the turnout as June.
And a lot of Republicans were there. November is going to be a bloodbath for the red party. (Just wish it were possible to elect actual progressive Dems.)
I expected the place I went to have like maybe twenty people and there ended up being hundreds. This is in a deeply red area. We got so many cheers and honks of support from people in traffic. Like it was non-stop horns the whole time. It was only an hour long protest, but it was so incredible. I spoke to a group of 5 protestors who used to be MAGA, but realized they were wrong. They said they were protesting to try to change the minds of the people they used to be like and to make up for helping bring about the meds we're all in. The whole thing made me a lil hopeful for the future and I was riding the good mood from it all the way through Sunday.
Don’t forget about the primaries! See if there are any progressive candidates running in the dem primaries on your ballot. Vote for them in the primaries even if you don’t think they have a shot. Even if they don’t win, a close race could be a sign to the establishment dem that things are changing and if they want to keep getting elected (to collect their bribes) then they need to change their platform. Plus every vote for a progressive candidate encourages them to keep fighting the good fight. If you have the time and resources, volunteering if also really good, but obviously not everyone can
All this being said though, yeah I still wish there were just more good candidates
Don’t forget about the primaries!
Maybe that'll work locally, but Dems rig their national primaries.
November is going to be a bloodbath for the red party.
They said that during the 2 last midterms, too. I'm not certain.
Oh I am.
Donald's candidates have lost every election in 2025 and 2026, most by double digits, in both red and blue states. The majority of these losses occurred in districts he won by double digits in 2024.
And he's doubling down on unpopular governance.
He's so unpopular they can't even gerrymander because they can't adequately project where it will help them.
In before the doomers start complaining that it was a protest and not
A Republican representative said "it went great, we now have all their data." So, swings and roundabouts and that.
It's a start, but a general strike should be the goal!
May 1st has been announced.
Yeah I heard it’s happening after April 30th.
I didn't wake up today with the intention of being a downer, but the odds of a general strike happening are vanishingly small.
Just not gonna happen.
Americans simply don't have that kind of solidarity or the breathing room to go without a paycheck or lose their jobs.
It's the fastest and least violent way to bring this treasonous government to its knees, but I don't see it happening. I'm not even aware of any historical examples of a general strike on a large scale anywhere.
will you strike on May 1?
Probably not. I work a critical local government job. Didn't get to work from home during COVID either.
A general strike is just not really a feasible thing. Even in a country where most people weren't living paycheck to paycheck, you'd still have to worry about getting fired as retribution for taking part. And savings don't last long.
Again, I don't know of any instance of a general strike in history. For a reason.
It's great and important, but even a 100,000,000 person march with turnouts in every major city every weekend isn't worth a FRACTION of JUST GOING TO VOTE. All the protesting in the world won't change the fact that failure to do that has the US stuck with this for AT LEAST the next 3 years.
I might be wrong but it doesn't seem the people protesting would be the types that didn't vote.
On the whole? No, I agree with you. But there are certainly at least a few, just as certain as there are some who are out there protesting now who aren't going to make their way to vote in November. People's motivations fluctuate, and it's important to remind people that protest is an extremely important PART of civic responsibility, but it's only a part.
That's fair.
The amount of anti-democracy statements online is so strong, especially on the online left, I bet a lot of those protesters don't vote on principal. The irony of protesting what they helped to bring rarely hits those people.
You may be onto something but I always feel like people who are against voting are lazy shitheads that like to rationalize doing nothing whatsoever
That's one group. The "electoralism is bad something something both sides" purity-testers is another.
Downvotes? Voting really is a good idea - in a democracy.
Also credit where its due: The biggest protests in US history is a good thing.
Even in a flawed, crappy democracy, manipulating elections takes work, and the more overwhelming the voting the harder that work becomes, damaging election legitimacy, which ironically might actually lead to pressure for the changes non-voters insist are necessary before they'll vote.
Is voting a magical panacea? No. But there is absolutely NO action that can be taken that has as much impact towards goals of change in exchange for as little effort, and voting does NOT preclude any of the other actions people want to take. It's not an either/or.
Yeah, but Americans are awful at voting. Maybe we'll be better at allowing things to get so awful that we turn to mass protests and violence.
In a functioning society, the public mood would inspire the Congress to change their behavior. Unfortunately we just keep voting people back in 93% of the time for no reason other than familiarity.
Not just voting, but voting BOTH sides of the same shitcoin out of power. 33.4% is easier to achieve than 50.1, but Murkan peepol bad math.
Next year's will be even better!