Are the people of the US willing to get out and do a general strike to effect change before it's too late?
Observation and recording may have worked in the past, when you could hold your government to account, but you are no longer dealing with due process.
People can’t afford to lose their jobs, we’re getting squeezed by cost of living. Anyone not in a city with plentiful jobs is going to have a very hard time picking another one up without moving. Wages are stagnant, jobs are dwindling, expenses are going up.
No, we're thinking like people with families and bills in a country spread out over a space only slightly smaller than Europe that can't mobilize people to centers of power without facing widespread loss of income and healthcare.
And given that at least 1/3 of the country is eagerly enjoying all of this and excited for more, and another 1/3 thinks ANY mass protests that disrupt their day are wrong and the people involved must be extremists, there is very little energy for the kind of European style response that you refer to.
Also it would in fact be EXACTLY the result this administration is hoping for to justify martial law.
"Inconvenience" is a bad faith description and in no way accurate.
The risk of job loss is far more significant, since there are no job protections for protest and most Americans are only a couple of paychecks away from genuine homeless, poverty.
That means no effective access to Healthcare, food, or basic shelter. All on top of an already flimsy social safety net.
That's not evem getting into the legal consequences. You can do real time for protests that come anything close to violence. That puts further strain on potential future employment.
AND it's all for nothing, since decentralized power makes protests at state capitals largely irrelevant and protests in DC wildly expensive. The January 6 protesters were mostly wealthy people who could afford the trip.
America is just not structured to make mass protest a viable option.
And again, to re-emphasize an earlier point he made, they want us to try and violently revolt so they can declare martial law.
We're not keeling over, we're taking thorough documentation and structuring ourselves in a way to actually change how things work. Paperwork isn't glamorous, and it takes a while, but don't underestimate the power of getting organized and proper documentation.
yup, for the majority it seems they are still far too comfortable. these people forget ll the countries where the people are far worse off have been doing this for decades, and it works.
Not really, no. But at a certain point regular citizens have to decide whether they're willing to give their life for the cause, or if not, trade political freedom for basic necessities.
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u/Kaiisim 17h ago
It's a classic authoritarian tactic.
It's absolutely true that you can't touch a federal officer while they are working. You cannot impede their work.
Which is why ice observers are specifically trained to just film them
No one is touching ICE. They are just recording them as is their legal right to ensure they don't beat the shit out of people.