Thousands gather for No Kings rally in Minnesota

Unfortunately, short of a general strike and a mutiny by the military there is a zero percent chance that happens before the midterms.

Some people are literally living in totally different worlds with their news/allgorithims/ news feeds. I googled “what Trump has done since his presidency” on some random computers the last months (from my brothers to various office ones to libraries) and literally the first page was ONLY good things for MOST of those. I disagree about people not taking warnings seriously. Some take it seriously but are being fed completely different stories. Control the narrative and you control many thoughts. I believe meaningful change is still possible. Check mamdani for example People still would have and still are fearful of losing their jobs for the reasons someone mentioned earlier: “There are many more reasons than not being motivated enough, though that is a major one. Our health system being tied to our jobs, which act punitively towards us for missing any amount of work is another. Our lowered education standards being another. Our propagandized individualism another. Many reasons. I can go on. I’ve thought about these long and hard.” “Undereducated chunk of you” don’t include me when I am having a calm discussion with you.

There are many more reasons than not being motivated enough, though that is a major one. Our health system being tied to our jobs, which act punitively towards us for missing any amount of work is another. Our lowered education standards being another. Our propagandized individualism another. Many reasons. I can go on. I’ve thought about these long and hard.

The frustration is fair but you're asking why Americans don't do weekday civil disobedience like it's just a matter of will. It isn't. Skip work to protest in France and you have universal healthcare, strong labor protections, and union backing that makes retaliation difficult. Skip work to protest in the U.S. and you lose your job, your health insurance, and have almost no legal recourse because most Americans are at-will employees. The structural preconditions that make disruptive weekday protest viable in France simply don't exist here, and that's not an accident, it's by design. And here's the thing: that same logic cuts both ways. Your country can't project geopolitical power the way the U.S. does either, and nobody's calling you a coward for it. The Netherlands isn't fielding the world's largest military. Indonesia isn't dominating global soft power. Those are consequences of scale, resources, and institutional history, not moral failure. We don't hold that against you, so explain to me why different rules apply when it goes the other direction. You're holding Americans to a standard that only becomes achievable when your institutions are built to support it, then treating the absence of those institutions as a character flaw. Nobody's saying the protests are enough. But "do what France does" isn't a solution. It's advice that ignores everything that would have to be true first for that advice to be actionable.

It’s not that I didn’t ask questions. It’s that you’re still dodging them. How would you organize? Tell me. Don’t just tell me that you would. Tell me how.