Americans do indeed suck at protesting. What's worse, choosing non violence is great, as long as violence doesn't happen because if your inaction. 750,000 + dead in the last year alone, how many abducted, abused, and so much more all because Americans won't do anything.

There are multiple contributing factors which all boil down to "Americans have lost the ability to cause prolonged discomfort for the people with authority".

Some of those factors include: the large number of Americans living paycheck to paycheck; leadership calling the bluff on the implicit threat of future violence that protests represent; the isolation of federal representatives from their constituents; etc

Disruptive protests work by drawing attention to the specific system that's being disrupted by being reasonable, and the injustice that's inflicted by cops in response.

Like, a sit-in on a segregated bus: black guy gets on a bus, is beaten by cops for it.

Disruptive protests don't work for more abstract problems, because opponents can focus on the protest and it's disruptiveness without acknowledging the problem it's in response to. Like, if protestors throw soup on (the glass barrier in front of) a painting, people can discuss the ethics of soup-throwing without mentioning climate even once.

In other words: disruptive protests are a tool, and only useful if used right.

PS: the civil rights protesters were all specifically trained for what to do, and to expect police brutality and to not retaliate. None of it was spontaneous, and it wasn't random jackoffs thrown in with a "figure it out".

It is kinda hard to imagine an effective protest in America given some that have happened and the results. The LA riots back in 92 did not solve the problems that lead to the George Floyd protests that didn't solve the problems that lead to the anti-ICE protests. In 92 there were over a thousand buildings burned down.

Without universal healthcare there will never be real protests in the US.

Majority of Americans do not give a shit. They just want to make money and if anerica goes to shit they'll take their money and go live somewhere else. It's all a scam. That's why these protests are weak, that's why they vote for trump. They just want a tax cut this year they dont worry if next year america descends into chaos. They'll sell their house to a foreign investor and retire in costa rica they do not care.

Nooo but you see we just HAD to vote for a genocider because the other genocider was also a pedophile