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Why are there no large demonstrations in the USA against Donald Trump's policies? (feddit.org)

submitted 3 days ago by CrazyElephant@feddit.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I'm increasingly wondering why people in the US aren't taking to the streets in their thousands.

I'd also like to share a poem by Martin Niemöller, who was a pastor in Germany during the Nazi regime and even supported the Nazis at the beginning:

First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist

Then they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out Because I was not a trade unionist

Then they came for the Jews And I did not speak out Because I was not a Jew

Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me (Martin Niemöller)

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[–] TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca 126 points 3 days ago (2 children)

There are. It's just the US is a large car-centric country which makes travel difficult and the ruling party controls almost all of the media and thus there is a media blackout on protests.

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 72 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This right here is the main reason why Trump might succeed... The media has been beaten into submission and refuses to report the actual events that are occurring which make Trump look bad.

[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 42 points 2 days ago

The media hasn't been beaten into submission, it's owned by MAGA billionaires. There are plenty of independent media news sources reporting facts, but they don't have the same reach.

[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Was there anything on the scale of the 2017 women's march? I'm sure your arguments are true to some extent, but I am surprised and concerned that I haven't seen anything in similar scale to 2017's protests, despite the situation being so much worse this time. Back then they managed to mobilize over 200,000 people despite being car-centric.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, and in 2020 we elected a democrat and gave democrats a majority. Instead of codifying Roe, they protected the filibuster.

We saw how much good the women's march didn't do because one party wants women dead from sepsis, and the other doesn't give a shit.

Why protest when NOT EVEN THE GOOD PARTY LISTENS?

[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yeah the democrats have been a disappointment. I'd kinda see that as a reason to protest all the harder though. Using more disruptive measures like general strikes as well. Make them listen. Protest movements have overthrown tyrannical regimes before. Gets harder the more they've consolidated their power though.

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 32 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Really impossible to say because, to reiterate the point the post you're replying to made, the media is not covering protests like it was in 2017. There have been multiple protests in all 50 states, some very large, but the word just isn't getting out about them.

[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Foreign media would report on it though, wouldn't it? There are many European reporters in the US. And there should be plenty of videos, pictures etc showing the scale. I haven't seen anything comparable to pictures of the women's march personally. I've seen pictures of protests but they seem, comparatively, quite small.