I just went down to our local lib demonstration. All I could really feel was depressed. All those people waving signs but I wonder how many are willing to do anything more than that? Shit most of them were pretty old, tbh. I approached some people I clocked as comrades but I was very awkward and we didn’t have a conversation.
I guess I don’t really have a question here. Just feel like everybody has identified (some of) the problems, but have totally misidentified the solutions. Will these protests ever accomplish anything? Can we radicalize the protestors without them having to get beaten by cops? Or is that what it will take?
I used to feel this way but after living through several waves of these lib performative protests I’ve gotten a bit jaded about them. At best they seem useless, at worst I think it is just a way for Libs to tell themselves they’re doing SOMETHING so they can go home after and VOTE later.
Idk, maybe this is cope because I’ve been too exhausted and depressed lately to do much of anything myself, but I will be very pleasantly surprised if something substantial comes of any of these protests.