The White House is more than 40 hours away from here driving non-stop.
The number of people from here who could have participated in a march at the White House (maybe taking a week off work in order to get there and back traveling 16 hours a day by bus) would have been very small. Instead, thousands of us marched in our local downtown yesterday in a solid throng.
Protests at a specific location convey a message, but mass protests everywhere convey a message too.
Yep. Which is why there were a disproportionate number of small business owners, landlords, and other nonwage “workers” on January 6th. The people that could actually afford to fly out and storm the capital are people already in a very financially sound and privileged position. They either do not do actual work or have a job they can easily take time off for and not fear being fired.
And these people are the base of the Republican party and the MAGA movement. It’s why it’s so mucher harder to get leftist organized in places like this. There are just not as many of us that can afford to do something like that.
The White House is more than 40 hours away from here driving non-stop.
The number of people from here who could have participated in a march at the White House (maybe taking a week off work in order to get there and back traveling 16 hours a day by bus) would have been very small. Instead, thousands of us marched in our local downtown yesterday in a solid throng.
Protests at a specific location convey a message, but mass protests everywhere convey a message too.
Yep. Which is why there were a disproportionate number of small business owners, landlords, and other nonwage “workers” on January 6th. The people that could actually afford to fly out and storm the capital are people already in a very financially sound and privileged position. They either do not do actual work or have a job they can easily take time off for and not fear being fired.
And these people are the base of the Republican party and the MAGA movement. It’s why it’s so mucher harder to get leftist organized in places like this. There are just not as many of us that can afford to do something like that.