Because most people aren’t willing to go that far, and never will. Including people who see why it’s necessary; they just aren’t willing to do so themselves.
But we’re so far from that step. Peaceful protests in the US are going in fits and starts. It needs to be more sustained. If you can’t do that, then the more violent steps are going nowhere.
We’re far from that step not because the majority of people aren’t mad enough to become violent, but because they’ve been trained to believe that violence is not only unnecessary, but counterproductive toward social change. We need to un-indoctrinate those individuals before people start coming to a protest ready to elevate it to a revolution if necessary, which is what is required to actually force change. If the politicians are aware that they can ignore a protest without consequence, they’ll never even give it a second thought. Until we are ready to take the next step, each peaceful protest is like tuning the ignition in a car with a dead battery.
Because most people aren’t willing to go that far, and never will. Including people who see why it’s necessary; they just aren’t willing to do so themselves.
But we’re so far from that step. Peaceful protests in the US are going in fits and starts. It needs to be more sustained. If you can’t do that, then the more violent steps are going nowhere.
We’re far from that step not because the majority of people aren’t mad enough to become violent, but because they’ve been trained to believe that violence is not only unnecessary, but counterproductive toward social change. We need to un-indoctrinate those individuals before people start coming to a protest ready to elevate it to a revolution if necessary, which is what is required to actually force change. If the politicians are aware that they can ignore a protest without consequence, they’ll never even give it a second thought. Until we are ready to take the next step, each peaceful protest is like tuning the ignition in a car with a dead battery.