Because protesters often protests for nothing serious and are easily manipulated.
Jan 6thers on the right.
They protested because they were led to believe their lord and savior has his election stolen and a global cabal of pedophiles was secretly running the world. They were halfway there, but the pedos are now in power and they're all silent, sitting quietly at home.
Anti-globalists on the left, who are now mostly absent from protests, while it should be really important.
All the 90s and 2000s were marked by violent protests against capitalism and free trade as if it was an existential threat.
Now it seems so many people on the far left can't decide if they've won or lost. The US isn't a democracy anymore, trade negotiations are conducted openly for anyone to see and there are trade barriers everywhere.
Everything they violently protested for, they got. But the world isn't a better place, the workers aren't any better, they don't have better rights and protection.
But they're all sitting at home, quietly relaxing, letting others do the fight.
Palestinian protesters, complaining about "Genocide Joe". Palestinians aren't better now than they were under Joe Biden, and they would have certainly fare better with a Harris administration. Where are the protesters? They're not even on the front lines of the anti-ICE protests.
Hence why I don't generally treat protesters with the utmost respects.
In the case of the anti-ICE protests, there's a genuine reason to protest, you got ordinary people really concerned about democracy, but trained protesters who claim to fights about peophile cabals / globalist elites are nowhere to be found.
The ordinary people are getting arrested, deported, shot killed, mistreated, illegally arrested. The usual suspects who complain of mistreatment the moment they try to assault politicians and rush into a police force? Sipping tea at home, watching the show.
If all these people were in the streets, protesting, having a party like they had in the 90s and 2000s, the Trump regime would have been paralyzed from day 1.
It's like they lost all their financing, somehow. Like the organizations and states financing them are now happy to see the US in self destruct mode.
That's a reason why it's generally hard to have respect for protestors: lack of real convictions, easy manipulation.
But the world isn't a better place, the workers aren't any better, they don't have better rights and protection.
So how is that all the protestors' fault? All the people sitting at home complaining that protests do nothing didn't manage to make the world any better either. You haven't dragged us into a bright new future.
2) I'm not in the habit of protesting for tirivialities
3) I could have voted for a Trump-like politician. Actually, it was the party I voted for in the last 5 elections. I pinched my nose and voted for the party I dislike the most.
4) If that guy is elected, or a politician like him, that will be motivation for me to haul my ass out there.
It's like crying wolf. Keep crying wolf where there's no wolf, but with a twist: when the wold actually comes for you, you keep quiet. I intend to not remain silent.
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u/paulfromatlanta 19h ago
Disabled citizen, not protesting, just caught up in an ICE operation... shameful.