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Its weird that american people never protest anything in big masses, or at least its very rare and almost never happens for core livelihood issues (wars, cost o
by ssijak 22d ago
Its weird that american people never protest anything in big masses, or at least its very rare and almost never happens for core livelihood issues (wars, cost of living, corrupt politics...).
It's so different compared to Europe, and I was always wondering why. Is it better propaganda machine or?
- tty456 22d agoThe No Kings rallies are pretty massive
- lux-lux-lux 22d agoNot just massive, they were the largest single-day protests in US history, each exceeding the last. The problem is that they didn’t move the needle at all, politically - the Oct 2025 protest, for example, was followed immediately by the embarrassing capitulation by the Dems on the shutdown. This is the real reason protest in the US is relatively rare: the political class has thoroughly insulated itself from it.
- walthamstow 22d agoEurope contains Britain and several other countries who hardly ever protest anything. We're not all France.
- Nifty3929 22d agoAmericans are too busy working for all that. Their GDP per capita is almost double leading EU countries, except for a couple of outliers like Ireland and Switzerland. You can complain about what you don't have, or you can work to produce it. Then again, Americans are sometimes called workaholics, working far more hours. So in some ways this is just a lifestyle choice.