How easy is it for a large portion of your populace to come from all your provinces to Ottowa to protest en masse? And did it work in Turkey? Has he resigned? They've been under it for 14 or so years now.
A large portion of our populace? Let’s be honest, even if it was a few hundred thousand people it would be nowhere near a large portion of our populace and it wouldn’t take long at all. Many of us drive hours to get to our cottages each summer weekend. I’m sure we could mange a drive for this.
You're missing my point. It's not easy to mobilize and coordinate a huge group of people to gather in DC. California is a 5 hour plane trip. It takes two hours on a good day to get into the city from Northern Virginia. Is it worth it? Yes. But it's not just "oh, let's all go to DC today to protest"
They did it on the Mall in the 60s... the million man march did it... 4th of July is bonkers in washington... admittedly, protest favors the young... especially in inclement weather... but look at Zagreb today... Tbilisi... Kyiv... people will make the trek.
Not with a day's notice and not without local community support, and not for just one day... this is a commitment to change. One day won't do anything. But do it before you can't.
Honestly, I think it would have to be in a blue state. I have friends who are petrified of protesting, I’m in a blue city in a purple state. I’m trying to convince them to start with an overpass sign holding in a really blue city, but no go yet.
I went in "plain clothes" and stood around in front of the us embassy... no sign... just hung out and clapped and chanted.
I'll bring signs next time. Start small... dream big!
Americans are stupid and lazy. And most of us can’t take off work for this kind of thing for fear of losing our livelihoods. And there are so, so many republicans everywhere. And now they think they’ve won
As a European, I'm obviously just a dumb outsider. But as a German with our special history in mind, I can only advise you to take action. Dictators get worse over time, not better. Hitler didn't start the Holocaust immediately either. But in the end, that was the result - one of them.
You're speaking as though everyone is already on the same page; obviously not the case given how many people voted for trump; how many people didn't vote and how many of them genuinely want to see the system destroyed in the misguided belief that their lives will improve.
I’m a Canadian and I can…So many of Trumps base is completely brainwashed. Don’t you remember the news stories of the Jan 6 insurrectionists who only came to the realization two years later that he used them and it was wrong? As awful as all of this is, it’s also extremely sad.
I remember. But it isn’t necessarily the people who voted for him that I expect to see marching in the streets. I have seen relatively small protests all over but not nearly on the magnitude you would expect to see considering the egregious actions this administration is taking on a daily basis.
I agree with you 100%…I honestly in my heart think because it’s been so much so fast every day, that many of them are in shock. Or they are so affected emotionally that they can’t even begin to think of how to try and fight back.
And that’s the strategy. In just days Trump claimed left-leaning media outlets are illegal, detained green card holders and tourists without cause, claimed it’s a terrorist act to protest Tesla, did a Tesla informercial from the WH lawn, started bombing Yemen. You get whiplash trying to keep track.
Do you think Trump Is ruled by KBG and doesn't know? Our friends feel he's brain washed since early trips to Russia. Melania appears to be like a robot cyborging from behind scenes w/ attys.
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I'll bring signs next time. Start small... dream big!
7% of Americans live in DC plus Virginia plus Maryland (and these three are almost twice as big as Hungary).
There are tons of protests in the US. They just don't have the same density.
Please stop making excuses.
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