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Happening today.
It is time to heed the words of the man I began this whole thing with: John Lewis. I beg folks to take his example of his early days where he made himself determined to show his love for his country at a time the country didn’t love him. To love this country so much, to be such a patriot that he endured beatings savagely on the Edmund Pettus bridge, at lunch counters, on Freedom Rides, he said he had to do something. He would not normalize a moment like this. He would not just go along with business as usual. He wouldn’t know how to solve it but there’s one thing that he would do that I hope we all can do, that I think I did a little bit of tonight. He said for us to go out and cause some good trouble. Necessary trouble to redeem the soul of our nation. I want you to redeem the dream. Let’s be bold in America, not demean and degrade Americans. Not divide us against each other. […] This is a moral moment. It’s not left or right, it’s right or wrong. Let’s get in good trouble.
Senator Cory Booker, April 1, 2025.
I’ll be participating today as well. But I’m Curia what others think, as someone whose been a part of a dozen of these protests over the years, I don’t know if anything positive has actually come from them? The enemy is the billionaire class whose ruining everyone’s lives through greed. But I don’t think they actually care if people are in the streets since it doesn’t affect them at all.
I feel like taking these protests to their personal homes would be much more effective no?
I feel like protests like this are also for the morale of the country. We fall into echo chambers online, and it is hard to see how many people are actually unhappy with current affairs. By taking to the streets, you can quantify that number and show Americans that they are not alone with how they feel. When enough people feel that way, enough to take time out of their day to simply march and take to the streets, mayb we can get some weight for people to actually listen. This is our opportunity to stand together, literally and figuratively.
Ya that makes sense!
In my mind you go to a protest to sign 16 petitions, add your signature to people who want to run for office, and register to vote/join a party/etc. I’m always a little discouraged when I go to one and see none of this. There’s a reason they group these rights together in the constitution, they are meant to go hand in hand. DSA has a decent presence where I live but I’ve never seen the actual democratic party out talking to people. Protests are filled with people asking ‘whats next’, and the Democrats keep failing to show up and answer the question.
Protests of any kind are great places to find like-minded individuals. People who believe in freedom as strongly as you do. Talk to others about ideas you have. Swap signal contacts. Make connections.
If the public didn’t worry them, they wouldn’t invest so much money and effort militarizing police, villainizing protestors, manipulating the narrative, and black-bagging activists like Mahmoud Kahlil.
The illusion that the wealthy don’t care what the poor think is a part of the system working as designed. They want you to think they don’t care. They want you to think protesting is pointless.
They don’t want you to feel connected. They don’t want you to feel like you have a community around you that agrees with you and supports your cause. They don’t want you to stand in a crowd of tens of thousands and think “boy, there sure are a lot more of us than there are of them.”
Do whatever you can! Get in some Good Trouble.