Protests aren’t always about (actually pretty much never about) an immediate demand being met. They’re about getting people together and building a network of likeminded people. They’re about demonstrating to others around you that they might not be alone in thinking things aren’t OK. They’re a step in the process.

I’ve heard this repeated sooooo many times every time this comes up. So at what point are you actually going to do anything with that “network”. Or is it just to find friends to moan with?

Did a hell lot more than King’s days protest, at least it was a debate for way longer. But they suffered from too little numbers in the end. But of course you can ignore all other long-term peaceful protests, like the salt march, to dismiss the underlying point

As long as Americans think one day peaceful protests will do anything, I don’t see a anything happening. That concept is so mind boggling dumb imho. If you’re not willing to commit for weeks/months, and say from the start, ‘ah tomorrow we will be gone’. Then why wouldn’t the government just ignore it? No you put out your demands and sit down in Washington DC or NY or something until the demands are met. Giving it a deadline just doesn’t make any sense at all.

Now if this would actually happen, I don’t see it stay peaceful for very long, but probably a tiananmen square situation developing. With how little the gov cares about people’s well being.

But to be honest, the US probably needs vigilantes/rebels a la the Black Panthers for anything to happen.

The democracy route? Yeah it’s way past that point already. As long as people like Bernie Sanders (or anyone more left than Bush) keep getting marked as some kind of ‘communist’, nothing will happen there. That propaganda has been gobbled up too much already.