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What naysayers don’t get about ‘No Kings,’ the biggest protest in U.S. history
leaders with the most prominent Trump-resistance group organizing “No Kings” answered that complaint Saturday when Indivisible’s Ezra Levin took to the stage in Minneapolis and announced that a nationwide general strike is planned for May 1, modeled after a successful local action that shut down much of that region in January
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.
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.
I might be wrong but it doesn’t seem the people protesting would be the types that didn’t vote.
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
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.
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.
Not sure it can even be classified as a “protest” being held on a Saturday… maybe a “march” would suit the tepid impact better.
The only worthwhile thing out of this is that they are FINALLY calling for a General Strike but, after seeing how amazing Americans are at coming up with excuses for inaction, I am not holding my breath
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.
How many democrats in congress have voted against this administrations cabinet picks? I’ll give you a hint: it’s almost none of them.