A house fire doesn't smolder out when people dance in the face of flames. It simply consumes everything, including the idiots dancing thinking vibes will put it out.
Sure, you can be nonviolent and a pacifist if you want. Thing is, in a struggle for power, when ballots and petitions don’t work, the power players aren’t pacifist. There will be animals in human form, men who will rape, steal, rob and murder for shits and giggles, these types come to the fore in every war. You can’t be in the middle. You will be made to choose, or a choice will be made for you and if you disagree or try to debate, you’ll be killed. There will be nobody to call, nobody to complain to. Best thing is for you to help the good guys on the Left win, we’ll leave you alone, protect you, and ensure that your survival needs are met. If the right wins, they will enslave those who are strong enough to work, and eradicate those who aren’t.
“They ceased to be angry. They ceased to be hot. They ceased to be uncompromising. Why, it even ceased to be a march. It became a picnic, a circus. Nothing but a circus, with clowns and all. You had one right here in Detroit — I saw it on television — with clowns leading it, white clowns and black clowns. I know you don’t like what I’m saying, but I’m going to tell you anyway. ‘Cause I can prove what I’m saying. If you think I’m telling you wrong, you bring me Martin Luther King and A. Philip Randolph and James Farmer and those other three, and see if they’ll deny it over a microphone.
No, it was a sellout. It was a takeover. When James Baldwin came in from Paris, they wouldn’t let him talk, ’cause they couldn’t make him go by the script. Burt Lancaster read the speech that Baldwin was supposed to make; they wouldn’t let Baldwin get up there, ’cause they know Baldwin’s liable to say anything.
They controlled it so tight — they told those Negroes what time to hit town, how to come, where to stop, what signs to carry, what song to sing, what speech they could make, and what speech they couldn’t make; and then told them to get out town by sundown. And everyone of those Toms was out of town by sundown. Now I know you don’t like my saying this. But I can back it up. It was a circus, a performance that beat anything Hollywood could ever do, the performance of the year. Reuther and those other three devils should get a Academy Award for the best actors ’cause they acted like they really loved Negroes and fooled a whole lot of Negroes. And the six Negro leaders should get an award too, for the best supporting cast.” - Malcolm X on the March on Washington
#NoKings is reporting 7 million people participating. If 7 million people took a 10 minute work break at the same moment across the country, the ruling class would lose about $5 billion. We could leverage real changes and we'd feel our power.
Watching US citizens not realise that the situation they’re living through, which they’re ‘protesting’ against, is a direct result of the policies of the people they’re hoping to get back into power
It’s like cause and effect are two entirely unrelated words in the American mind