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Gen Z is about to experience the futility of protests that Gen X experienced 22 years ago. The way to create change is voting.

Protesting is just slightly above writing mean tweets in influencing U.S. government policy.

Slightly.

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Lee 🌏
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Lee 🌏
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"The way to create change is voting" "AND getting involved in Politics on both a Federal and Local level, all year round."
(If you don't mind me adding 🙏)
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Matt McIrvin
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Where I am, it's not Gen Z that's protesting. It's Gen X and younger Boomers. We've been through this before, we know. We also vote.
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mhoye
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Kurt Vonnegut once famously said that “During the Vietnam War, which lasted longer than any war we've ever been in - and which we lost - every respectable artist in this country was against the war. It was like a laser beam. We were all aimed in the same direction. The power of this weapon turns out to be that of a custard pie dropped from a stepladder six feet high.”
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DoNotPunchDown
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Protesting by withholding power and labor matters.

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The General strike -the people united shall never be stopped. If we strike together we can make true real change. Sign the strike card today.
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David
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For sure it is frustrating to have the government ignore the message of your protest.

However, I think that effective protest serves as a rallying cry/call to action for people to run elections on those issues and give people the idea that these are issues worth voting about.

Whether that is effective in the American system is another question...

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libramoon
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I thought the point of public protest is to bring attention to the issue, and meet people for developing further tactics
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Eugene Kim
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Eugene Kim
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It’s the circle of politics, young voters believe in change, get disenfranchised when life is boring and nothing actually changes, stop voting, and then the oldest generation remind them to be thankful for what they had.
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Jerome
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The way to change is voting? In July 2024, Donald Trump told a crowd they will not have to vote anymore after his election.

(Yes, I know there are discussions about what he really meant, see snopes.com/fact-check/vote-fou… ).


Trump Told Crowd 'You Won't Have to Vote Anymore' in 4 Years?

In July 2024, former U.S. President Donald Trump told a crowd, "Get out and vote! Just this time. You won't have to do it anymore! Four more years, you know what? It'll be fixed, it'll be fine, you won't have to vote anymore."
Anna Rascouët-Paz (Snopes.com)
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Tanega
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Tanega
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Vote can be useful, but electoral system is shape around ruling class interests.
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Manuel Ceron
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I agree with the futility of protest. But voting is not that much more effective when you only have two options.
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PPN
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the US is well beyond the point where voting can create change. The majority of US citizens are frankly evil or out of their mind. It is no coincidence that Trump managed to win twice despite being a senile lunatic, an incompetent coward and a disgusting rapist.
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