11.2 million. That’s the number of American citizens who rank climate change as their top issue but didn’t vote in the 2024 election, according to research by the Environmental Voter Project. For context, Donald Trump won the presidency in 2024 by less than 2.3 million votes. For a little over a decade, EVP has been [...]Read More... from If So Many Americans Care About Climate, Why Don’t They Vote Like It?
The USA had the largest sustained series of protests in human history in 2020 about specifically this issue and vanishingly little was accomplished in terms of actual police reform/laws changed.
Yes, because the rich in the US know that, once people get it out of their system, they stop fighting. After all those protests, they still got to see Trump elected, both because the idiots voted for him and the DNC barreled on with Blue-no-matter-who(read: Ignore the will of the people and be complicit in your opponent’s win).
Protests need to come with SOME kind of consequences. The US does not practice consequences for the rich and powerful at nearly any level.
The USA had the largest sustained series of protests in human history in 2020 about specifically this issue and vanishingly little was accomplished in terms of actual police reform/laws changed.
Yes, because the rich in the US know that, once people get it out of their system, they stop fighting. After all those protests, they still got to see Trump elected, both because the idiots voted for him and the DNC barreled on with Blue-no-matter-who(read: Ignore the will of the people and be complicit in your opponent’s win).
Protests need to come with SOME kind of consequences. The US does not practice consequences for the rich and powerful at nearly any level.