Why would you expect a demonstration of 250 people, in a city of 300,000, to have a measurable effect? Or 1,000 out of 650,000?
I hope that’s not too discouraging, I am certainly on your side (cheering from Canada) and would love to see the US people rise up en masse, but it is going to take a sustained effort to sway a large population.
This is a very small number of people mobilizing to defend their rights.
In France when we had the demonstration against the change of retirement age, the mobilization lasted over 4 months and every protest accounted from 300k up to 1.2M participants across the country (official numbers, multiply by 3 if you want the Union’s number).
The situation is several orders of magnitude more serious in the USA at the moment. I find it very strange, concerning and sad, that people over there seems to just accept their fate, just watch their 300 yo democracy collapse into totalitarianism in a few days.
Why would you expect a demonstration of 250 people, in a city of 300,000, to have a measurable effect? Or 1,000 out of 650,000?
I hope that’s not too discouraging, I am certainly on your side (cheering from Canada) and would love to see the US people rise up en masse, but it is going to take a sustained effort to sway a large population.
This is a very small number of people mobilizing to defend their rights.
In France when we had the demonstration against the change of retirement age, the mobilization lasted over 4 months and every protest accounted from 300k up to 1.2M participants across the country (official numbers, multiply by 3 if you want the Union’s number).
The situation is several orders of magnitude more serious in the USA at the moment. I find it very strange, concerning and sad, that people over there seems to just accept their fate, just watch their 300 yo democracy collapse into totalitarianism in a few days.