That’s because it goes against the interests of the organizers who are the controlled opposition (Democrats, large capitalists like Walton family, etc). The task of these protests is to provide an outlet to vent frustrations against “the unamerican bad man who ruined everything” and to get support for the upcoming elections, rather than to do anything that could be disruptive or illegal.
It’s no coincidence that previous No Kings have left absolutely 0 impact, or the absurd spinelessness of organizing it within countries that still have monarchies (UK, Canada) but changing the name to No Tyrants because they don’t want to upset their power structures even if being anti-monarchy is no longer even remotely radical.
Even besides that, expecting a revolution to actually happen merely because some reactionary took power for next 4 years, especially when material conditions/interests for the majority of the people haven’t been fundamentally changed at all is a bit of a liberal delusion.
Why don’t the masses just revolt instead of doing pointless protests? Are they stupid?
I have yet to see concrete demands, and clear escalations for when the state misses them.
Yet, I’ve been told to organize by angry people.
That’s because it goes against the interests of the organizers who are the controlled opposition (Democrats, large capitalists like Walton family, etc). The task of these protests is to provide an outlet to vent frustrations against “the unamerican bad man who ruined everything” and to get support for the upcoming elections, rather than to do anything that could be disruptive or illegal.
It’s no coincidence that previous No Kings have left absolutely 0 impact, or the absurd spinelessness of organizing it within countries that still have monarchies (UK, Canada) but changing the name to No Tyrants because they don’t want to upset their power structures even if being anti-monarchy is no longer even remotely radical.
Even besides that, expecting a revolution to actually happen merely because some reactionary took power for next 4 years, especially when material conditions/interests for the majority of the people haven’t been fundamentally changed at all is a bit of a liberal delusion.