A lack of organization. There's no one central voice organizing large scale protests, so you get hundreds or thousands of smaller protests that don't attract media attention.
this post was submitted on 30 Mar 2025
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It is normal... first Social Media desensitizated all of us... by the masses. It is hard to prove now what is true or false... Even "sensible Governments", left and right are applying techniques that Trump popularized... Look at the EU today! Add that to a fragile real economy (not what you see in the stock market) so everyone is afraid of a bold move and being written into a black list. I used to have a professor in that showed us documents (from FOIA) how, in the 80s, the FBI contacted his employers after his interviews no to hire him because his Communist ideas... Today you would not even get FOIA on that. Imagine now with the technology how a government hostile to you can ruin your life. The best way to survive, put your head down and go as unnoticed as possible.
In 2020, the DNC struck a devil's bargain to ally themselves with the corporate media and social media platforms over their own activist base. This led to the media doing massive coverage of what was, other than the women's march, not particularly impressive "resistance." Now that the corporate media and social media have realized that the DNC is so dysfunctional and unable to do any institutional accountability for poor performance, it is unlikely we will see them in power for decades (ala the GOP for most of the 20th century) they switched sides and allied themselves with the GOP, so their incentive is to just not cover protest at all to suppress dissent and please their new allies on the MAGA right.
Elon is taking the blame
What rock do you live under?
Complacent masses. As long as there is stuff to consume and cheap entertainment to numb the feelings, nobody cares.