It’s protesting what-aboutism, already disconnected from the topic.
Did you know that right leaning voters lack empathy for others, whereas left leaning voters understand both sides of the arguments?
Why are you protesting? It’s just accurately explaining the political divide.
What’s wrong with the message “We should be doing better, not worse”?
Seems preferable to the “hurt people who also want the things I have” that seems the core of conservatism.
Who is?
Who made Trump happen?
I’m sorry you feel powerless to affect your country, but there is no one else to. Abdicating that responsibility neither removes the consequences, nor exculpates you.
In a rioting mob, even the people not setting fire to things are in part responsible for the riots.
In your survival, head-in-the-sand, mode you are normalising the situation, you are providing legitimacy, you are enforcing the current order.
The other side can say “look, this dude’s not protesting, they have a great life under Great Leader”, they can ignore you and put those resources to oppress others instead (women, trans, homosexuals, foreigners, allies), they can march right past your house to take the capital.
Your inaction is also a choice, a choice that emboldens and enables the fascists.
If you don’t act, who should? If you don’t act now, will there be another time?
I’m not convinced the EU is monolithic enough for bad blood to matter, there’s enough member states with enough history that someone will always have issues with someone.
What I do believe will be a point of contention though are all the special dispensations the UK have had. With the power balance as it is today, UK might have to face membership on equal terms with the other member states this time around.
I’m not sure I understand.
Saying “We can do better than Trump/Fascism/Corruption/Kleptocracy” seems far from normalising the current state?