The system is set up to keep us busy and living hand to mouth.

Not to mention Fox News and the right wing media exists entirely to lie straight to our faces and fill our brains with culture wars so the average person has no idea which way is up.

I think something a lot of people miss is the actual scale of the US as a country. My state is pure blue. My local government is mostly tolerable although not as far left as I'd prefer. Rioting here accomplishes nothing because democrats aren't in control of the government so we're just trapped along for the ride.

For me to join a protest with a meaningful impact I would need to travel to Washington D.C.. For a west-coast American to actually protest at the capitol of America it would be a similar travel scale to an Irishman traveling to Moscow to protest the EU. That trip alone would cost me ~450 euros before fees and before the cost of any food/shelter. It would require that I leave my job if I stayed for more than a week and because I have no job I can't pay rent so I must surrender my belongings and uproot my family.

This just isn't achievable for the average person without your life already having entirely collapsed in the first place. The most any of us out here can realistically do is try to throw money and other forms of support at the problem and hope other states can get their shit together.

Was Renee a coward?

How about Alex?

Sit down and stop making a fool of yourself. You don't know anything about what's going on, and you shouldn't be generalizing.

American here.

What should I be brave enough to do individually, specifically (I live paycheck to paycheck).

How many assassination atte.pts have been made? Lol

Not endorsing them but seriously.

Unfortunately the “comforts” are basic life things like medications to live and being able to live in your home.

We aren’t talking about having Netflix. You protest, you miss work, you are fired, you lose your income, no safety net, no healthcare, loans and debts take your home car (very little public transport that works in much of the country) and life away, and you and your entire family are homeless on a street corner and possibly dying. Inside of 2 weeks for a majority of Americans. Even insulin is hard to acquire without “the system”.

In the 1980s the government bombed Philadelphia, specifically the MOVE movement for the crime of being politically motivated while black.

On top of that, your literal life depends on the machine. With no national healthcare, you need to keep your job to have the basic, astronomically priced insurance, and even if you have it, should anything go wrong, you could lose everything just staying alive. Not many people can afford the risk of fighting back. It’s toe the line or die.

Struggle to stay informed. Struggle to keep your job. Struggle not to get sick or hurt. Struggle to keep your privacy. Struggle to get any other isolated, self-centred Americans to organise with you in any significant numbers to fight against the people with all the power, all the money, and a massive military they made a point of using against their own people to prove they would…

It’s not impossible. But we will say it’s slightly daunting. For all their “freedom”, most Americans can’t even afford the time away from work to vote.

That said, this administration has slammed the gas pedal and more and more people are starting to run out of what little they had. As their security erodes, they have less to lose. More and more are fighting back, and the Trump admin has proven they are not very good at pretty much anything. Rescuing the US won’t be easy, but it will be possible. They just have to future proof the place against the next Project 2025.

"Protesting doesn't work" is literally propaganda for the status quo, don't spread this crap, worse than just being defeatist and doomer it discourages others from protesting.

Protest is a step in the process of rebellion... How many people are gonna rise up with an armed rebellion when they see the most of the population can't even be arsed to attend a march or rally?

And it does work.