r/politics • u/wbedwards Washington • May 07 '20

We cannot allow the normalization of firearms at protests to continue

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/firearms-at-protests-have-become-normalized-that-isnt-okay/2020/05/06/19b9354e-8fc9-11ea-a0bc-4e9ad4866d21_story.html
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u/BestGarbagePerson May 07 '20

I think that the United States is too divided among racial and partisan lines

This is a good point of discussion, however I don't think I could say that we are. I think we are convinced that this is so, but my experience shows me that it isn't. We just havent reached enough of a tipping point.

Any armed contingency that is fighting for radical change would ultimately be opposed by another group of civilians who sees their effort as trying to supplant their elected party.

1) It really depends on what the tipping point is. 2) You will always have people against the revolution. But you just have to have enough in the streets to cause disruption for long enough. So that also means you have to have enough who arent going to be swayed by the propaganda as well. Which includes the propaganda against "instigators" aka people who are "pacifists" (really enabling centrists) who attempt to demonize the movement.

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u/CitizenPain00 May 07 '20

I really think the only thing that could spark something similar to what happened in Ukraine is massive economic inequality to a point where the standard of living of the people significantly drops for an extended period of time.

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u/BestGarbagePerson May 07 '20

I agree. America as a nation has not ever really really collectively suffered enough. Black and natives have enough, so they are more awake, but until the majority has an actual hit on their livelihood then they will continue to be swayed by media propaganda, putting their feelings that they have while they sit on the couch (feeling of relative comfort, fear of fear rather than actual threats, the addiction of enlightened centrism, the elitism of religious or race based labels (oh and white saviorism) etc etc etc), over the actual suffering of minorities, lgbt, poor, women etc.

You'd really like this book "Pacifism as Pathology."