I really don't understand why I constantly see this sentiment on every post pertaining to protests. Rome wasn't built in a day. How do you expect the masses to go directly to violent revolution when many of them don't even recognize there's a problem, and most of them have spent their whole lives in a system which hasn't required any political participation at all? Drawing attention to the problems is how you get more people active.

Obviously, protests won't do anything to directly influence the corrupt leaders in any meaningful or beneficial way. I don't know anyone who actually hopes for that. But a handful of individuals resorting to political violence will be easily quashed by the fascists' enforcers and then demonized or ignored by the fascist-friendly media, so the logical thing is to make the movement too big to fail or ignore. Drawing attention to the problems is how you get more people active.

I'm also getting pretty demoralized seeing that the only organized "resistance" is controlled by Boomer Neoliberals who aren't interested in taking any action.

Literally any single one of these protests has the numbers to force immediate change. And they're convinced we have no choice but to walk in circles and chant.

More than you.

Showing solidarity. If you don't think that's important, then you have some reading to do on the history of protest movements.