Protests will put pressure on the president and weaken the extent to which he can say he commands broad support.
The protest takes place on Labor Day, a federal holiday dating back to 1894 recognizing workers’ contributions to America. This year, it falls on September 1.
On the website, the organizers listed the following demands:
- Stop the billionaire takeover corrupting our government.
- Protect and defend Medicaid, Social Security, and other programs for working people.
- Fully funded schools, and health care and housing for all.
- Stop the attacks on immigrants, Black, indigenous, trans people, and all our communities.
- Invest in people not wars."
I really don’t understand why I constantly see this sentiment on every post pertaining to protests. Rome wasn’t built in a day. How do you expect the masses to go directly to violent revolution when many of them don’t even recognize there’s a problem, and most of them have spent their whole lives in a system which hasn’t required any political participation at all? Drawing attention to the problems is how you get more people active.
Obviously, protests won’t do anything to directly influence the corrupt leaders in any meaningful or beneficial way. I don’t know anyone who actually hopes for that. But a handful of individuals resorting to political violence will be easily quashed by the fascists’ enforcers and then demonized or ignored by the fascist-friendly media, so the logical thing is to make the movement too big to fail or ignore. Drawing attention to the problems is how you get more people active.
People in ancient Rome protested through rioting. I’d support that.