If we take out the guillotines, there will be much change from a single protest
Comment on Mass protests have failed to bring about social change. It’s time for a new strategy.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
People expect way to much change from a single protest. You need to contact your representative and get enough people to join in order to get some attention.
Your protest also can’t be silly like a lot of recent protests are don’t go protest the 2016 election or 2020 election as you will accomplish nothing. Also make sure you have some sort of purpose or end goal.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
gmtom@lemmy.world 11 months ago
So you’re going to ignore the decades of protests about climate action? That have all been ignored because the people in power will never give a shit about your protest if its easily ignored.
GalacticCmdr@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Small protests are easily ignored. DC climate action protest - 75k people in a nation of 300+ million - even if the muster 1m it’s still peanuts. It doesn’t even move the needle.
Take that same number, 1 million, and have the vast majority be from Georgia marching in Atlanta. Georgia is 10m with 7m available voters. Now we have enough numbers to push the needle.
Sure it’s not on a Federal level, but politics are local. Federal action is a quagmire unless enough localities begin to gel behind a single direction - then those seeking Federal office will have to pivot.
gmtom@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m from the UK, the biggest protests in my countries history were the stop the war protest in 2003 where 1.5 million people attended and the protests for a second EU referendum where the largest had 1.2 million protest.
And because they were both peaceful protests, they were completely and easily ignored.
Then if you compare that to just about any protest in France where less popple protest, but they do so in a way that isn’t easily ignored, they get far more shit done.
GalacticCmdr@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The UK had its chance with the EU referendum and voted to leave. The populace had a chance to voice its opinion and it did.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
And that right there is the problem.
Not enough people care, and the will never care. Most people just want to know that tonight there is bread in the table and that at least this month they’ll be okay. Most people don’t really look beyond that, nor do they want yo, or they feel like their voice won’t matter anyeay.
I guess it’s sort of the same reason why so few people vote. If everyone that could vote would vote, the Republican party would cease to exist the next day. But alas, people don’t. Republicans relatively speaking, do vote a shit load and with that they get a lot of power, something that is nicely exploited by the assholes