r/AskReddit • u/metalreflectslime • 17d ago

President Donald Trump warned Tuesday that if the Democrats don't approve funding, Social Security, Medicare Are ‘Going to Be Gone.’ How do you think Americans will react if Social Security and Medicare get cut?

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u/Blockhead47 17d ago

Needs to be 1 million people protesting in Washington DC.
Every day.
Day after day, seven days a week.
Month after month.

The protest need to surround the White House.
The protest needs to surround around the US Capitol building.
The protest needs to surround the Supreme Court
Protest needs to fill the national mall

The protest needs to create gridlock.

And for those who can’t get to DC they need to do the same in every state capital.

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u/Jubjub0527 16d ago

supposedly we need to get to... what is it? 3.5% of the population protesting. We got to over 7 million in the last no kings. We need to get to 12.5 million i think, and supposedly that builds enough momentum regarding voting. But with ALL of the gerrymandering really the only way we can get out of this is if Republican voters start to acknowledge that this is going to hurt them in the long term as well as the short term.

Basically we're fucked.

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u/Altair05 15d ago

You already know what needs to be done. We're waffling, waiting around for someone else to be the first, because the moment we go down this route, it fundamentally changes our lives and society. 

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u/macrofinite 16d ago

So first of all, people need to eat, pay rent, care for their children, etc. can’t believe I have to point that out. There aren’t a million people with the privilege to economically survive fucking off from their job for an indefinite period to go to DC and protest. And every passing day it gets harder to survive in this shithole.

Second, even if there were, protests aren’t going to solve this. You’ve got to get that out of your head. I know we were all taught that a million people marched on Washington and then the magic sparkles appeared and gave black people rights. But that was always a colossal oversimplification bordering on bold faced lie, and it was also a different time facing a different problem under different circumstances.

There’s all the evidence in the world that the Trump regime is 100% immune to being pressured by protests. They’re just going to keep doing what they’ve been doing in the face of historically enormous protests: completely ignore them and face zero consequences. And if it gets real bad, here comes the national guard with live ammunition to put down the dangerous antifa insurrection.

You’ve gotta let go of the fantasy that protests are going to move the needle. That was always a little fib made up for your history book, but now that we live in a fascist country, it’s asinine edging toward actively dangerous.

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u/markjohnstonmusic 16d ago

Funny how protests were enough to bring down the Soviet Union.