VeeI will never understand why Americans are just taking it.
Alexander KarnEarnest question. What would “not taking it” look like for/to you?
Strike, revolution, take back the country before there's nothing to take back. There's suppose to be 3 more years of this...
Speaking only for myself, I would say that calculations are being made by Americans, both individually and collectively, about the current and likely distribution of pain and infringement of democratic rights and what course violence might take if the resistance were to change/escalate its tactics.
We may still see the things you call for here. We also might not, like other societies that found themselves at the mercy of illiberal bad actors.
I’ll add this. In addition to a history of complacency and atomization, the USA is huge (without an obvious political epicenter), and 350 million people makes it challenging to organize /undertake collective action.
8 million people mobilized for No Kings on Saturday. You’re right that’s not enough to constrain or dislodge the MAGA regime, but it’s not nothing either.