The reasons are similarly bleak, unfortunately. Cops killed an indigineous climate protector. There is a lot of information in that thread.
One dead and a dozen charged with domestic terrorism for protesting. Hate this place
You ever think cops wait until one of their buddies murders someone like this to park the most clapped out cruisers on the curb and walk away?
It might be part of the tactic, you’re right. Direct the anger and momentum.
Supposedly used to be a thing they did on "police brutality day" in Montreal
To everyone who insisted "we'll never see momentum like 2020 again": lol, lmao.
humans have a natural desire to preserve the world and each other. you won't be on the frontline but others will.
We’re pretty much giving the global south some time to get ready for full scale rebellion, I’m fully aware America ain’t going to fix itself alone.
No?
Everything in 2020 fizzled out, more or less, having made minor gains. What policy wins were had have either been rolled back or are in the process of being rolled back, with no resistance with any chance of succeeding.
Liberals recuperated the 2020 protests in real time and everyone basically just watched it happen.
It's an indictment on disorganized direct action and not having a coherent political program or organization.
Liberals recuperated the 2020 protests in real time and everyone basically just watched it happen.
Yeah but they could only do that as the opposition, they can't do that this time
Liberals were in power in basically every city, which is where the largest protests and actions were. They already did exactly this recuperation when they weren't opposition. Liberals in power were the ones making speeches and showing up to rallies and promising to defund, then hoping everyone would forget those promises and sitting on their hands and even increasing police budgets. They faced no consequences because there was no organization or momentum. The 2020 protests were more like riots than coordinated actions, a free-for-all built on expressions of pain launched at what was proximal. Whoever had a bullhorn dictated what actions were taken. It was often liberals trying to collaborate with cops, even include cops in the marches lol.
Liberals were opposition at the national level, but there's very little at the national level that is even relevant given our collective disorganization. The feds can do a lot of material harm, but our capacity to challenge them is almost non-existent and would have to begin at the local level, where we are also disorganized. Biden ran on pro-cop policies, won, and implemented those policies without needing to deal with any opposition.
Maybe you're right and I'm just getting high on my own supply of optimism from having just beat covid, I shouldn't get overconfident
Oh no I'm not saying to not be optimistic. Knowing our position is the only way to be optimistic, imo.
The failures of 2020 spell out our opportunities. The public is less mollified than we might have thought. A critical mass can be mobilized. It just needs organization and direction, which is exactly what we, as socialists, are usually good at. We don't know when the impetus for a riot will strike, but we can be prepared with a network of people ready to mobilize, ready to take coordinated actions to put maximum pressure, ready to sustain a campaign that may last 2-4 years, ready to use organized labor. That's what we should be building towards and it all starts with building inclusive, politically educated parties/orgs.
Yeah, the libs in the Democratic party just stole that momentum and co-opted everything
They can't do that with Biden in office :joker-troll:
Looking forward to Biden tweeting that somebody should do something about all this
The difference is 2020 was every city, which we need to bring back
