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uhsguy  ·  1396 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: John Berger: The Nature of Mass Demonstrations

Here in Seattle these protests are just seem to be a the highest form of virtue signaling. Most people protesting in Seattle don’t want a revolution or really any actionable change. If they wanted that they would just put up a ballot initiative that forbids any state or local government authority from negotiation or any contracts with police unions. That would easily get a large set of the issues solved and allow for future resolution of some of the other issues. But I don’t see any real legislative action happening.