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.
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