Yeah, the average population density of the US is a lot lower than many people realize. Protests are seen as city-based things, both geographically and culturally.
And then you have eu-nation-sized red states that can hold many many trumpers who are unable to play nice with others because they don’t have to have neighbors.
I didn’t really finish my thought there. Apologies.
It was starting to get at why we don’t really see “the americans” protested like we might “the french.” And our media doesn’t help in how they report it. It enables the republican populace as well as the entire government to more easily ignore it. It’s always "protests broke out in cities across america in response to X.
The physical separation is also part of it. it all helps feed into this “divide” where the republican voters can seemingly give no shits about human suffering or the rise of fascism because it’s all happening to “other” people far away. It might as well be the middle east.
People without neighbors are also less clued into to how policy changes affect entire societies of people, rather than just the price of gas for their truck.
And like the other reply said, this is just one contributing factor.
Disagree… It’s not “reported” as news, but if 5% of a town showed up to a protest, that’s a big fkn deal to the people who see it, and makes them aware that the protest exists.
It’s only one factor. The bigger factor is that our police are insanely militarized. If my black ass tried to barbecue at a protest, I’d get gunned the fuck down, then I’d be unnamed in the news stories (if there were any), and the cop would get a medal for killing a “terrorist”.
That’s more like it. Americans (just like Russians) like to automatically dismiss all the critique and calls to action with this knee-jerk “country big” reaction, and since you can’t actually do anything with a country being big, it’s a bit of a thought terminating cliché. Meanwhile, the size of a country rarely has anything to do with anything
Yeah, the average population density of the US is a lot lower than many people realize. Protests are seen as city-based things, both geographically and culturally.
And then you have eu-nation-sized red states that can hold many many trumpers who are unable to play nice with others because they don’t have to have neighbors.
How on earth the fact that your country also has wast swats of empty land stops you from doing effective protesting? Or any, actually.
I didn’t really finish my thought there. Apologies.
It was starting to get at why we don’t really see “the americans” protested like we might “the french.” And our media doesn’t help in how they report it. It enables the republican populace as well as the entire government to more easily ignore it. It’s always "protests broke out in cities across america in response to X.
The physical separation is also part of it. it all helps feed into this “divide” where the republican voters can seemingly give no shits about human suffering or the rise of fascism because it’s all happening to “other” people far away. It might as well be the middle east.
People without neighbors are also less clued into to how policy changes affect entire societies of people, rather than just the price of gas for their truck.
And like the other reply said, this is just one contributing factor.
Protesting in the bumfuck nowhere gives no results. 10 people protested in village of 200 isn’t news. 2k people protested in 200 villages isn’t news.
Disagree… It’s not “reported” as news, but if 5% of a town showed up to a protest, that’s a big fkn deal to the people who see it, and makes them aware that the protest exists.
Couple of years ago, “mud wisard” made an international news, and it was a protest of a dozen people in an empty village in the middle of nowhere.
It’s only one factor. The bigger factor is that our police are insanely militarized. If my black ass tried to barbecue at a protest, I’d get gunned the fuck down, then I’d be unnamed in the news stories (if there were any), and the cop would get a medal for killing a “terrorist”.
That’s more like it. Americans (just like Russians) like to automatically dismiss all the critique and calls to action with this knee-jerk “country big” reaction, and since you can’t actually do anything with a country being big, it’s a bit of a thought terminating cliché. Meanwhile, the size of a country rarely has anything to do with anything