I’m envious of the way the French protest their government. They’re literally setting things on fire because their schools aren’t adequate. Because the government tried to raise the retirement age. Because their politicians are shitbags.
I think the biggest obstacle to organizing in the US is the sheer distance. It takes 40 solid hours of driving to get from one side to the other. That’s not counting any breaks. France takes about 14 hours. Doable in a day or so if you push it.
Anyway, I’d sign up for a Revolution if there was a serious contender.
You’ve never ordered pizza for a party, have you?
I mean… I might have…
Then you know that unanimous consensus doesn’t exist.
But without it, the needs of smaller factions won’t be addressed. Their interests will be trampled, and they will have to either leave the coalition, or willingly choose to table their priorities.
Sure, but you’ll never get unanimous consensus on anything and you know it.
I’d settle for 99%. But I think that it’s possible, we’ve seen it happen in local action groups fighting against ICE/military occupations; we’ve seen it in the height of Black Lives Matter’s street protests.
I would agree that once you are talking about nation-sized movements, it becomes very difficult to hold them together with one agreed-upon purpose. That’s why the roots, the foundation in local organizing is so important.
You’re living in a bubble, man. BLM and Anti-ICE have never gotten even close to that kind of consensus. The only thing that’s even close is anti-flock, but even that’s divided.