A reminder that the anti-Iraq-war protests were some of the largest demonstrations in human history and they failed. The "carrying signs and yelling at empty buildings" theory of change comes from a sanitized retelling of past movements.
Today, every group with a twitter is calling for a demonstration in their town, but movements that don't cause power to feel pain and don't have the institutional capacity to negotiate if/when they do are doomed to failure.
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in reply to The Luddite • • •The American left needs to get organized. I know you're out there. I meet so many people who self-identify as socialists. Recent rallies in Vermont had tens of thousands of people come out, but at every other kind of organizing, be it a meeting, canvassing, strike support, phone bank, etc., there are the same few dozen people every single time.
People in power know this. They used to get nervous when they saw huge rallies, but they've learned that they don't represent an organized threat.
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