Americans didn’t band together to make cost of living affordable nor took it to the streets to demand universal healthcare.
They literally did and do, though. We have mass marches and protests that fill up city streets on a regular basis in the US. We had Occupy. We had the BLM marches. We had Women's Marches. We've had Palestinian Solidarity Marches. Israeli Solidarity Marches. No Kings Days. Earth Day. National Boycotts. Rallies to Restore Sanity. We had a mob of people ransack the US Capital five years ago, ffs.
The problem with Americans is not that they don't band together and take to the streets. The problem is in the leadership, which has alternately cashed out, been actively corrupted or mysteriously murdered.
Organizations that aren't infiltrated and subverted from within are pincered between malicious DAs and nefarious NGOs - as was the case with Ohio's ACORN in 2009 and the Harvard anti-Genocide activists organized during the tenure of Claudine Gay - and rubbed out of existence.
There's a naive assumption that politics in the US simply isn't happening. The bitter truth is that we're in the middle of a Cold Civil War, the casualties are mounting, and most people simply can't acknowledge it because the reality is too horrifying to accept.
You REALLY think Americans will suddenly band together about AI affecting their way of life?
I think they already are. And I think the Silicon Valley influenced state and national governments, combined with their lobbyists and media allies, are working to identify, subvert, and expunge anyone with meaningful purchase in civil society.
Group leads march in Downtown Memphis to protest Elon Musk's xAI
Organizations like this exist today. Idk if they'll exist tomorrow.