Comment by avidiax
4 days ago
We don't need to manufacture consent anymore. The days of protest ending a war that the US is engaged in are long gone, if they were ever here.
Even the ballot box isn't enough. We don't have an anti-war party in the US.
Our news media are largely captive to the military, with the embedded reporter system.
Congress has abdicated broad war powers to the president, and the courts won't intervene.
The global community can't do anything to the US. Sanctions are very unlikely.
> Even the ballot box isn't enough. We don't have an anti-war party in the US
This is lazy and wrong. Simple answer is leadership is betting this won't lose them the Congress in the midterms because enough Americans won't care. Conceding ex ante the ballot box is literally proving that hypothesis.
Do you think there will be midterms?
And will the results be honored?
Right now it’s even money it won’t.
> We don't need to manufacture consent anymore.
You can see it on every popular internet thread
I mean they did it in US media, even used the same wording as they did for the Iraq war.
Protest has never stopped a government from doing what it wanted. Not a single time in history.
When it's appeared to work, that has one of two causes: either the government didn't really care very much to begin with, or it was the other extremely violent group that made the government choose to appear to back the protest group in order to give into the violent group's demands while saving face. (See civil rights)
> Protest has never stopped a government from doing what it wanted. Not a single time in history
This is nonsense.
> or it was the other extremely violent group that made the government choose to appear to back the protest group in order to give into the violent group's demands while saving face
Violence isn't needed. Protest is designed to tip the balance of power.
Name some times protests worked, then. It wasn't civil rights, nor was it Stonewall (which was a riot).
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