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The problem is timing. You can't get a world class protest or general strike together overnight, it takes organizing and planning, and that takes time.
Trump is threatening action tonight, which is why it's down to either congress, the cabinet, or the military.
I agree, but regardless of what happens tonight, it's not going to end or stop. We'll need to encourage that grassroots organizing to effectively deal with the regime at some point in the future.
Except not true.
We've seen this is so many countries, where something happens and then the capital is swarming with hundreds of thousands or even millions of protestors the same day.
In countries that are tiny compared to the US. For me, personally, going to Washington D.C. to protest is either a 5 hour flight or a 41 hour drive.
There's no point protesting locally because the local politicians are already on the right side of things.
And what are your local politicians doing? How are they fighting for you?
If they are just twiddling their thumbs and waiting for this to end, like you are, then I would argue that they are NOT on the right side of things.
They are trying, but as Democrats, they have no actual power in the House or Senate:
https://kval.com/news/local/oregon-leaders-respond-to-trumps-post-threatening-iran
So everyone in America is a 41 hour drive from DC?
Everyone in America has local politicians that are on the "right side of history"?
Like maybe you can argue you personally have an excuse for not doing anything, but the entire country? Millions of people live near enough to DC to shut the city down with a mass protest. In my country people traveled for like 6 hours to protest on a days notice.
Won't happen in the US because, like I said in the other post, people have no savings, are living paycheck to paycheck, and can't take time off work for such things.
And, yeah, most people are happy with their representation.
Congress as a whole has incredibly low ratings, but when asked about YOUR congressperson, most people approve.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/1600/congress-public.aspx
Do you approve or disapprove of the way Congress is handling its job?
2026 Feb 2-16 16% approve 80% disapprove 4% no opinion.
Do you approve or disapprove of the way the Republicans in Congress are handling their job?
2025 Dec 1-15 29% approve 70% disapprove 1% no opinion
Do you approve or disapprove of the way the Democrats in Congress are handling their job?
2025 Dec 1-15 24% approve 74% disapprove 2% no opinion
Do you approve or disapprove of the way the representative from your congressional district is handling his or her job?
2019 Jan 21-27 53% approve 35% disapprove 12% no opinion
More American exceptionalism
In my country they planned the Gaza protests in less than a week last year, they were huge, and guess what, I didn't need to go to the capital to participate, I went to the one in my city.
Protesting in my city is pointless because Republicans immediately write off my city and my state and have been doing so for decades because we don't vote for them.
https://www.wweek.com/news/2018/12/06/rip-george-bush-heres-how-portland-protested-him-in-the-1990s-and-earned-the-name-little-beirut/
So you're linking an article describing a very successful protest to explain how protesting is useless?
Look, just say "I don't want to do it! I don't care enough about others to do something about this, I'm ok with being complicit to atrocities."
It wasn't successful. It had zero impact on the war and only served to make sure the Bush administration ignored anything we had to say.
Further, it made sure all future Republican administrations also ignore us.