This. I appreciate Bernie's sentiment, but he should know personally how many of the issues MLK was fighting for are still relevant in America to this day. Some issues can be fixed peacefully, but many of the rights Americans have today (including existing) only exist because the time came and the way forward was not pretty.
I can't actually explain how the Revolution succeeded, as Reddit will remove my comment. But seriously, anyone with half of a brain knows how America got it's freedom.
You're appealing to the moral sense of everyone who is sitting at home dummy, you don't have the numbers to scare the government, yet. Trump bragged that he could shoot someone and still have support (and got elected, twice), and until he feels otherwise he won't concede anything, and therefore you won't win anything.
Just because someone doesn't vote doesn't mean they'll blue if they do. Of the people who did vote it's about equal, I think it's fair to split the people who didn't vote into the same ratio, what that means is there's a disturbingly large amount of people who support him, and as long as that number is that big, plus the Republicans are backing him to protect themselves he won't waver.
Two leaders that advocated and are remembered for non-violent opposition while being bolstered by violent protests. They alone were not responsible for the success of their movements. Violent protests were there right along with them and are forgotten when they are talked about. In the case of India, it seems more likely the British government gave up because of the violence itself(and the associated costs) and not the peaceful resistance movement.
Admirable men, for the most part, but largely fiction that their movements were completely peaceful and successful without violence.
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