• calidris [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        1 day ago

        This makes me happy to see. I hope you succeed in making real change in your community. I also hope you realize this was not the case in a majority of the other protests, despite our efforts.

        • jack [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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          I think the protests fall into a few distinct categories:

          You’ve got small town ones, which are essentially entirely grassroots and politically pretty soft. They’re still a good thing, because they are composed of people who basically have never taken any political action before. It’s progress, just starting from a very low baseline

          Then there are two city variants defined by the contest between the libs and the left. Either the libs have won via Indivisible and other components of the Dem machine quickly activating, or the left (embodied by PSL in most cities where there’s been some success here) successfully anticipating this movement and laying the organizational groundwork and earning the legitimacy to determine the political line and tenor. In big east coast cities, the Dem machine is powerful and mostly succeeded. In the midwest and mountain states, PSL has had far more success. I can’t really speak to the situation on the west coast, and these are all just trends with lots of exceptions.