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.
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.