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TIL No Kings Protests were the 3rd Largest in US History (en.wikipedia.org)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

So my point is that people need to keep their eye on the long term solution for America's problems, and that doesn't stop with kicking Trump out, it requires a far deeper cleanup of the American political system and addressing the problems of common Americans so that another guy like Trump (or, more likely, worse) doesn't get eventually get in power after Trump is out.

Denigrating the effort to date doesn't do anything to further your point. Instead it serves to quell support and push a negative outlook and view of protesting.

Offering support, encouragement and advocating for sustained effort would.

You mentioned the George Floyd protests and said, in relation to that, "merelly coming out and walking for a bit in your own time while holding a board up doesn’t seem to achieve anything" but that's not true.

During and immediately after George Floyd the protest effected a lot of change but then the protests stopped, complacency set in.

Trump is not the disease, he's a symptom, so merely Trump out isn't going to cure it.

No, the cure is sustained effort. The problems in the US have been building and evolving for decades, if not longer, and they'll take at least that long to get a handle on.