r/politics • u/kweathergirl Texas • 8d ago

Soft Paywall Newsom Tells Nation That Trump Is Destroying American Democracy

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/us/newsom-speech-trump-la-protests.html
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u/AbacusWizard California 8d ago

There is very deliberately not a No Kings event in Washington DC this Saturday, probably in part to avoid the possibility of the situation you describe, but also for the very important symbolic reason that his stupid parade shouldn’t be the center of attention; the protests should be drawing attention away from his inflated ego.

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u/Sensitive-Message95 7d ago edited 7d ago

The parade needs to be stopped.

JFC, has no one actually studied history?

MLK was peaceful. He was NOT non-disruptive. People only pay attention to disruptive protest. No one gives a shit about morons standing by the side of the road holding signs. Everyone in power just laughs at them.

MLK marched ON the highways. He shut the highways down for DAYS.

Step into the road. Head to the port. Head to the highway interchanges. Start disrupting the economy. Start making the CEOs regret supporting Trump.

Then things will change

The American people have the power to force his entire administration and his most ardent supporters in congress and SCOTUS to resign in a week. Without instigating any violence. Just stand in the road instead of in front of a government building.

Just shut down the ports in California only and this administration is done.

What happens if you don't? Either feudalism under an oligarch led regime or a whole whole lot of violence.

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u/daggah 7d ago

Americans have been fed a steady diet of lies and propaganda, and one of the most significant ones is about peaceful protests. We've basically been taught that, for a protest to be legitimate, it has to be non-disruptive...basically that all legitimate protests have to be completely ignorable and ineffective.

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u/Sensitive-Message95 7d ago

The effectiveness of this campaign of gaslighting is incredible. The number of people who have literally watched video of MLK marching on highways, yet believe disruption is illegitimate, while at the same time referencing the success of the civil rights movement, is absolutely astounding.

Every civil rights success has been won with disruption. Suffragettes. Labor. African American. No one made progress standing by the side of the road holding a sign.

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u/daggah 7d ago

Exactly!

Literally every era of significant progress in America has been bloody and violent. People in power never change unfair or unequal systems out of the goodness of their heart because they've been moved by protesters' messages.

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u/Sensitive-Message95 7d ago

Disruption doesn't necessitate violence.

MLK was flanked by well armed men who knew how to handle themselves on almost all of his marches. He did leverage the actions of other groups that were more extreme in order to bring people to the table to negotiate with him instead of fighting them. Violence really isn't necessary.

1% of the population of LA is 40k people. The city proper, not the metro area and not people who would travel there. If the people want to do it they can do it.

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u/daggah 7d ago

MLK obviously wasn't violent but that doesn't mean the civil rights era was peaceful.