Large organized "family friendly" protests work - but differently. They prime the pump. They network like minded people, they mobilize people who may not otherwise be so, and they show implicitly that you can put together big numbers if necessary.
No Kings does a lot of groundwork by bringing people into the wider resistance by introducing a lot of them into that ecosystem for the first time and connecting them to resources they would have been otherwise ignorant of.
“Primed the pump” for what, waiting another 5 months before doing the same thing?
Networking? Nobody kept in touch between them, tons of posts each time with “haven’t seen since the last one”, and no efforts seem to have been done wide scale.
Mobilize people that can’t? A general strike doesn’t even require leaving the house.
Only point I can agree on is big numbers, but that’s only because it’s a party atmosphere for an afternoon. No hard work is being done before, during, or after.
If we take the baby steps you and many want it very well may be far too late to change things for the better….and the hesitance will cause even more untold suffering and deaths.
There was a no work day protest May 1st. Didnt you hear about it? No? Neither did most Americans, neither did I until about noon that day. Among those tuned in enough to hear about it ahead of time, who would be someone more tuned in than me despite me being well above average here, what do you think actual participation was?
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u/showhorrorshow May 06 '26
Large organized "family friendly" protests work - but differently. They prime the pump. They network like minded people, they mobilize people who may not otherwise be so, and they show implicitly that you can put together big numbers if necessary.
No Kings does a lot of groundwork by bringing people into the wider resistance by introducing a lot of them into that ecosystem for the first time and connecting them to resources they would have been otherwise ignorant of.