I’m shocked that I haven’t seen one protest yet. Is the media suppressing them? If there aren’t any, why?

  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
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    10 days ago

    I’m going to guess

    • poor media coverage
    • media is explicitly hostile to protests and pro trump/right-wing-extremism
    • many people are living paycheck to paycheck + we have minimal labor protection
    • years of left-wing organizations being kneecapped (eg: the murder of fred hampton)

    A lot of people are angry but there’s not really much organization. As much as I would love someone to take 50,000 of their closest friends, march down to DC, and shoot every republican in the head, without years of organizing that’s just a fantasy. Unfortunately, the right wing has been doing years of organizing and it’s now bearing fruit for them.

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      Wholly agree. Vast majority of US Americans cannot afford to lose what little is left. We are two to three paychecks away from homelessness. Economic subjugation has been in the works across political parties.

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        I think the reason more people haven’t started to openly organize is mostly concerns about self preservation. This govt obviously doesn’t care about civil liberties and are openly calling anyone not with them “the enemy”. It becomes much harder to publicly and civily organize if there is a substantial chance you’ll be branded a terrorist organization. That’s obviously just my take from my perspective.

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          Unlike a lot of other countries where there’s been mass mobilization, there’s little recent memory of serious government oppression. Americans have generally had it pretty good when it comes to civil liberties over the last half century or so. They assume they can trust institutions like the courts to do the work of protecting democracy. So most people don’t realize how much worse things will get if they don’t actively resist now.