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.
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.