> As a European, I'm shocked at how complacent the public has been. There have been large, growing, and recurring protests. > Yet in the US a dictatorship eme

> As a European, I'm shocked at how complacent the public has been. There have been large, growing, and recurring protests. > Yet in the US a dictatorship emerges and you have small demonstrations here and there They aren't small. (They aren't well covered by the media, but the media is actively part of the problem.) > that won't change things. The social infrastructure and culture around which things like general strikes and more significant actions occur does not exist in the United States. The current and growing protest movement (and the networking and community building go on around and behind it) is how that infrastructure gets built. So, I disagree, the things you are saying won't change it are absolutely indispensable to building the capacity for the kind of things that can change it, assuming that it continues to develop in a way that cannot be constrained effectively by more regular political means such as the 2026 midterm and 2028 presidential elections.