I'm not sure how to say this anymore because I've said it literally. I've tried using metaphors. Tried using analogy. Not sure of another way to say it :
WE. ARE. NOT. ANGRY. ENOUGH.
There are people in multiple countries, like Spain or Italy or France, were tens of thousands, if not more, are protesting this administration daily while in the US we are organizing protests once every three months or so and only on a weekend and only for a couple hours.
We are dealing with a serious threat to democracy and the literal survival of humanity. We have an actual convicted felon as a president. We have a president that is up to his eyeballs in a pedophile child sex torture ring that stands accused of raping and beating children that is waging an illegal war that will very likely crash the entire world economy and our answer to all this is to hold a single national protest event every couple of months for a couple of hours and then pat ourselves on the back for our witty protests signs.
This is the equivalent of a "strongly worded letter".
We are facing a very serious situation and we are not very serious people.
And even those one day protests are large, maybe even millions of people, it is still just a fraction the US population.
We need real sea change like Nepal and others have experienced but we are cursed in America with White Knight Syndrome. We are, collectively, waiting for a single polarizing figure, yet another cult of personality, to save us. I think that's why so much attention is paid to certain politicians but these people are not here to save us either. They are just as bound to billionaires and corporations as most politicians.
All this to say that our very near future has very serious, world changing, consequences. It's not about hopelessness, it's actually the opposite, as long as we take it seriously and get out into the streets and start working on fixing it because there is no white knight, in the form of a person or election, that is going to magically fix things.
We, the collective citizens of this country, are the white knight, the calvary, we have been waiting to come. And we are just sitting on our couches and going about our daily lives as if we are not just that, our actual saviors.
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