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That's around 4% of the US population. Not bad.
If that’s accurate, there’s reason for hope: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world
The popularization of this "rule" was a mistake. Setting aside that this is merely an observation made by a person and not scientific fact, it says that 3.5% of the population when consistently engaged have never failed to cause change. If these 13 million all went out and occupied their local city/town squares indefinitely, Trump would fold faster than you can say TACO, which... isn't exactly news.
Thank you! It gets old real fast to hear people talking about "ThE 3.5%" like it's an Xbox achievement that trust removes facism from power.
Bitch marching does nothing if your judges are minions of power and your local politicians serve money before anyone.
Wait, I thought we all went political super saiyan at 3.5%. Then how high is it? 100%? 1000%?
Exactly. The point of protests like these should theoretically be to help like-minded people connect so they can progress to more effective resistance, but I'm not sure how many people are aware of this, and the 3.5% "rule" certainly doesn't help.
True, but I think we can capitalize on this. We need to maintain the momentum, reinforce the messaging that this needs to be continuous, cultivate communities around this, keep it fun and meaningful. At the very least, we got the attention of this many people. The organizers need to continue keeping and using that attention
Everyone needs to continue keeping and using that attention. This shouldn't depend on one person or one group of people; this is all of antifascist America. I strongly encourage all antifascist Americans, including you, to organize your own protests. When you see ICE trying to take people away, when vulnerable people around you are losing access to healthcare, when your local community is incensed at the atrocities perpetrated by the government abroad, you have an opportunity—and therefore a responsibility—to resist.
PS: These protests will need to start happening on weekdays and soon.
Lol.
Philippines - on the 4th day shit began to change
America - best I can do is a day
What percent of the adult population?
My Internet searching puts the US population over 18 at 262 million, which would make it closer to 5.1%. But there were definitely kids at the protests, so I'd assume they were included in the estimates. But I guess I'm not sure.