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8 million Americans marched for No Kings
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It's great and important, but even a 100,000,000 person march with turnouts in every major city every weekend isn't worth a FRACTION of JUST GOING TO VOTE. All the protesting in the world won't change the fact that failure to do that has the US stuck with this for AT LEAST the next 3 years.
I might be wrong but it doesn't seem the people protesting would be the types that didn't vote.
On the whole? No, I agree with you. But there are certainly at least a few, just as certain as there are some who are out there protesting now who aren't going to make their way to vote in November. People's motivations fluctuate, and it's important to remind people that protest is an extremely important PART of civic responsibility, but it's only a part.
That's fair.
The amount of anti-democracy statements online is so strong, especially on the online left, I bet a lot of those protesters don't vote on principal. The irony of protesting what they helped to bring rarely hits those people.
You may be onto something but I always feel like people who are against voting are lazy shitheads that like to rationalize doing nothing whatsoever
That's one group. The "electoralism is bad something something both sides" purity-testers is another.
How many democrats in congress have voted against this administrations cabinet picks? I’ll give you a hint: it’s almost none of them.
That would be a very valid point if not for the fact that the democrats winning would've gotten us COMPLETELY DIFFERENT CABINET PICKS.
Downvotes? Voting really is a good idea - in a democracy.
Also credit where its due: The biggest protests in US history is a good thing.
Not sure it can even be classified as a "protest" being held on a Saturday... maybe a "march" would suit the tepid impact better.
The only worthwhile thing out of this is that they are FINALLY calling for a General Strike but, after seeing how amazing Americans are at coming up with excuses for inaction, I am not holding my breath