cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/35928296
What naysayers don’t get about ‘No Kings,’ the biggest protest in U.S. history
leaders with the most prominent Trump-resistance group organizing “No Kings” answered that complaint Saturday when Indivisible’s Ezra Levin took to the stage in Minneapolis and announced that a nationwide general strike is planned for May 1, modeled after a successful local action that shut down much of that region in January
It’s easy to think protests don’t matter.
They do. Just not directly.
8 million people in the streets aren’t going to make literal traitors admit they were wrong and willingly leave their positions.
But 8 million people in the streets sends a signal to everyone else that the opinions they already hold about this treasonous government are valid and that they are not alone.
It’s a snowball effect. It’ll get bigger, if we’re persistent. Gotta keep the momentum building.
Oh yea? And then everything STILL votes between 2 asshole parties that both need to be dethroned and the cycle resumes.
Baby steps
Baby step IS voting in a neutral party, even without an agenda, and letting things settle down a bit.
Oh look, a brand new account using the “both sides” rhetoric. Fuck off with that bullshit. Have such an overwhelming blue wave that the current Republican Party has no chance of ever winning again, then it makes it much easier for the progressives within the Democrat party to differentiate themselves from the corpo-Dems.
Vote for all the progressives you want in the primaries, but come the general, sitting out or throwing away your vote is voting for a Republican.