The US is a nation that has monthly, if not weekly, school shooting massacres. I repeat, massacres. Of their own children. They did not rise up. Their president is a convicted felon, starting or agitating wars. Women, have no say over their own bodies. Black and brown people are at significant risk of unnecessary stops, arrests and death. The people did not rise up. Petrol prices increase, people begin to rise…
I have holidayed, travelled and worked with different Americans, with different political views. They are absolutely normal.
Is it really the minority of MAGA nutjobs that are so very loud, belligerent and unstoppable that are needed to get this Trump administration turned over?
Not looking for an argument, just devastated for my friends and family over there.
Something I rarely see mentioned is that America has historically had a culture of individualism, exacerbated deliberately by people in power in order to reduce the risk of popular uprising. For generations, the American people have been convinced to view their neighbor with suspicion: always lock your front door, if you don’t someone will break in. Don’t go outside at night, you could get assaulted. Don’t tell strangers information about yourself, they could track you down and kill you.
The most insidious propaganda aimed at the American citizen is “you are alone. Protect yourself, protect your family. Anybody could want to hurt you so treat everyone as if they plan to.”
The worst part is that this works even if you’re aware of it. In a culture where everybody has been taught to look at each other with suspicion, it becomes very hard to find community with people who have been isolated for so long they refuse to listen to your message.
This post highlights how American society has normalized extreme violence and systemic injustice without collective response. Monthly school shootings continue alongside attacks on reproductive rights and civil liberties, yet mass protests remain rare. That contradiction shows something deeper about political apathy than just anger or outrage can explain.
I don’t know how effective mass protest is unless it is at the steps of the capital in DC. This country is too big. It is prohibitively expensive to travel all the way to DC for a protest. Then even the peaceful protests lead to violence from the police and get people killed.
There’s a point where you are bombarded with horrible atrocity after atrocity that the protests all end up being about 10 different things and there’s never a unifying message.
The only nonviolent thing left is a general strike but most Americans are just one missed paycheck from homelessness so nobody is willing to take that chance. The capitalists have effectively neutered all chance of revolt or change in this country
To depose a power it is required to have a competitive alternative power structure. When third world leaders are deposed, it’s usually by the military, and they usually have either broad popular support or internacional financial support (or ambivalence). Sadly no such alternative structure exists at any level of the US.
“The people” never rise up for themselves without such structures, and movements that underestimate the importance of alternative power (like CHAZ) are doomed.
Nah, it’s the liberals too. It’s almost all of us, probably myself included despite my efforts to counter the liberalism I was raised under.
Liberals (i.e., ideological descendants of Enlightenment liberalism, including both Republicans and Democrats) don’t like the cosmetic vulgarity of Empire, but they aren’t against Empire generically.
AmeriKKKan’s like the violence, they just think its current iteration is too icky.
Until liberals openly reject Empire, openly rebuke the liberal monoculture, openly and militantly oppose capitalism, openly scream "No more
instead of just “No More Trump”, only then would s even begin to make good on our bellyaching about freedom and rebellion.All of this would change if a foreign nation had some spare funds to throw. The only reason J6 worked was because republican senators ate the bill to bus all those people to DC. I know 3 groups right now that could do so much more if only they werent all poor as dirt. Its the system, this has been the plan for fifty years or more. Us Americans just need to say fuck it and let them shitcan us. Or else its going to get so much worse than losing your job and healthcare (which admittedly is life threatening for some)
