firebirdscratches:

beardedboggan:

quakerjoe:

“We don’t have job protections and guarantees like they do in France. We have to schedule stuff on the weekends or our days off. If we called a general strike we’d all get fired. We have no guaranteed healthcare, so if we get fired we get no health insurance. You can see why the powers that be here in the US want to break unions, make healthcare rare, keep wages low, keep time off limited…”

-Kim Lewis

A good fucking question.

We are. See the Women’s March, the March for Science, the March for Our Lives, Pride Rallies and marches all across the country, March for Families…

I’d say that while it is true that activist energy has died down since 1/21/17, it’s still definitely present. It’s just not being covered by the MSM so even most Americans don’t know about it much less people abroad. Like I follow organizations like RAICES and the TX Civil Rights project on twitter and there’s an anti-ICE protest happening somewhere in the US every day since the family separation started. The MSM just does the whole “oh look a squirrel!” thing when it comes to issues instead of covering them in the long term.

Anything beyond that would require building the type of organizations that can keep people out on the streets for weeks from the ground up because Americans don’t have the sort of union infrastructure that is common in France. Most Americans are literally one or two paychecks away from being out on the streets and have nobody and nothing to back them up. In fact, I’m kind of concerned that like, say, if Mueller gets fired, the older, professional class and retired people who make up the majority of people who care quite a bit about Mueller being fired are going to try to nag everyone to go out into the streets for some type of sustained protest without providing any material support and they’ll end up looking out of touch