Hundreds of thousands of people took the streets across Germany this weekend as the nation enters a second week of protests against the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.
Around 100,000 gathered outside the Bundestag in Berlin alone, said the police, with up to 200,000 counted by the organizers in Bavaria’s Munich. Significant turnout was also reported in the cities that represent traditional the AfD voting strongholds in eastern Germany, like Leipzig and Dresden.
Are protests the only way people communicate? That has some serious, “don’t take my statue, how would I know history!?” false logic energy there.
Protests are an expression just like a riot. Riots are outright damaging while protests make people feel better. What they specifically do not do is solve any problem that cannot be solved in much better ways.
Making people feel better without actually doing anything to slow down bad people… is not a positive gain from a situation. If anything, people who feel better about a situation are less inclined to DO something about it.