Kim Voss, a UC Berkeley professor of sociology, says appeals rooted in American values may be more effective today than those evoking memories of the Civil Rights Movement.
The existing political parties phrase valid resistance as resistance that does not meaningfully impact or change anything.
People are sick of going and standing around and then going back to work, seeing that nothing has changed.
I’ve gone to every protest in my city this entire year and it hasn’t accomplished anything.
I think people support replacing our administrative branch for a lot of reasons, but nobody in a position of power is directing people to take action that makes meaningful change happen.
The problem is that people are not exercising their political power to the fullest extent.
Going to a demonstration where people are just standing around and voice their concerns doesn’t actually exert any legitimate political power. It is toothless. Failure to listen to demands doesn’t hold any consequences for them or threaten their control. They know we will all still have to go home and participate in the system that they control and gives them their power over us.
Protests of the past worked because the people stopped listening to their authority and threatened to take back control for themselves. That took monumental efforts of organizing to allow people to exert their own political power over their labor in order to put a wrench into the gears of the system.
The point of a protest is for, the reason it worked in the past was due to, people taking a stand to say “change this system to better benefit us or we are going to change it without you”
People don’t like movements with no direction.
The existing political parties phrase valid resistance as resistance that does not meaningfully impact or change anything.
People are sick of going and standing around and then going back to work, seeing that nothing has changed.
I’ve gone to every protest in my city this entire year and it hasn’t accomplished anything.
I think people support replacing our administrative branch for a lot of reasons, but nobody in a position of power is directing people to take action that makes meaningful change happen.
The problem is that people are not exercising their political power to the fullest extent.
Going to a demonstration where people are just standing around and voice their concerns doesn’t actually exert any legitimate political power. It is toothless. Failure to listen to demands doesn’t hold any consequences for them or threaten their control. They know we will all still have to go home and participate in the system that they control and gives them their power over us.
Protests of the past worked because the people stopped listening to their authority and threatened to take back control for themselves. That took monumental efforts of organizing to allow people to exert their own political power over their labor in order to put a wrench into the gears of the system.
The point of a protest is for, the reason it worked in the past was due to, people taking a stand to say “change this system to better benefit us or we are going to change it without you”
It’s time to start changing.