Same as the tariffs or other deprecations. Unless/until the average person feels some pain, nothing is real. Change is scary, and if the status quo is palatable or at least "not too bad", human nature is to go along. And people are (quite?) pain adverse so paths w/o pain are easier to accept.
People have prattled on about how the tree of liberty needs to be watered by blood from time to time. The NRA claims its purpose vs. tyranny. Well, there's a chance that events will call their bluffs.
thanedar•1w ago
Alex Pretti is a particularly perfect plaintiff to wake up Trump's base to the rising threat of 1st and 2nd amendment violations.
Like I wrote in the post, it would only take ~12 million activists to mobilize a true People's movement.
I think we just found out what would it take to get 12 million Americans in the streets in 2026.
Guestmodinfo•1w ago
People's movement start when there is an implicit assurance of sustained outside support. Many feel the pain but they will turn it into action because they don't know if they can trust their peers who are feeling the same pain that the peers will act too as much as they talk. Because talk is cheap. But when people start seeing some outside support then only they start rallying for their goal. That's what i gather from the Indian Freedom movement and from the "Arab Springs"
jleyank•1w ago
People have prattled on about how the tree of liberty needs to be watered by blood from time to time. The NRA claims its purpose vs. tyranny. Well, there's a chance that events will call their bluffs.
thanedar•1w ago
Like I wrote in the post, it would only take ~12 million activists to mobilize a true People's movement.
I think we just found out what would it take to get 12 million Americans in the streets in 2026.