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21 days agoNot exactly.
When 3.5 percent of a population goes beyond protest to engage in peaceful civil disobedience and noncooperation, these actions disrupt the system and force governmental change.
I don’t think no kings has done anything of the sort. They get a lot of bodies in the same place but to my knowledge they don’t push for anything beyond that.
Have you done any kind of investigation to confirm this? Cause as somebody that is organizing in the real world I can say that you are making some really big assumptions that seem to be based in a very specific population, if they are based in reality at all, which does not begin to account for the 2/3rds of folks in this country that, for whatever reason, whether or not you agree with their values or recognize the validity of their tactics or whatever, did not cast their vote for Trump.
None of what you’re saying has proved to be true in my experience. Not everyone is as online as you are. You cannot allow internet narratives to make you so apathetic that you defeat yourself before you’ve even started.
America isn’t special or exceptional. What we are doing has been done before. What Trump is doing has been done before. History has given us a roadmap for how to move forward. Yes it has to be fluid, yes it’s going to look different in each and every locale, yes some groups and tactics are going to struggle more than others to find their footing, but the movement is making steady progress and gets stronger with each person that struggles alongside us. Minneapolis has just accomplished the largest general strike in 80 years, in subzero temperatures, literally as you’re sitting around in the comfort of your desk chair talking about how what they’re doing is impossible and too online to happen in the real world.
I’m so sick of this keyboard defeatism. It’s like watching a football fan talk like they know more about how the game should/can be played than the coach and players on the field. If you aren’t on the ground struggling with us, if you aren’t plugged into any of the orgs making this progress possible, please kindly do not speculate as if you know your head from your ass when it comes to the state of US organizing.