Republicans actively laugh at protesters. If people are protesting, they think, "I've gotta be doing something right to be triggering the libs like this."

/Grew up in a Republican household with all Republican extended family

In fact, the largest protests in history (to that date) were in opposition to starting the Iraq war. Fat load of good that did.

Democrats protest. Republicans vote. Guess who's running the show.

[–] Cowbee@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Protesting helps a little, that's not what I'm referring to by a grassroots movement. You can't really do much in the face of a bourgeois dictatorship via electoral means, the system itself is designed against radical change.