Similarly, XR demanded Net Zero and the Citizens' Assembly.
Then they found themselves rounded up in their thousands, issued summons, and their form of protest made illegal.
They had served their purpose.
Now the laws that prevented them will also be used against people protesting against what XR had demanded.
You can't demand that a government act against the will and interests of the population without provoking conflict.
So what did XR expect?
#NetZero by 2025, as XR demanded, could do NOTHING but bring the state and population into direct conflict. It is such an extraordinary and harmful intervention that the only way it could be sustained is with the use of guns and tanks, on streets, pointed at citizens.
The Bristol idiots are very similar. A tiny number of people with no visible support, believe they speak for the broader population, seek confrontation with the authorities for no particular reason.
Support for the government belies the confrontation.
They really are spectacularly stupid. Self defeat is encoded into their DNA.
"Unless politicians and community leaders push back...".
Right... And so publicly identify with nihilistic 'protest'...
It's true of "systemic 'racism'" too, that people who claim it is a fact cannot identify the components or dynamics of the 'system'. Yet they are obsessed with 'systems'.
What people who demand the abolition of an (imagined) system invariably are in reality demanding is the instantiation of a system.
The EU/EC was no more democratic on 22 June 2016 than it was last night, and it gave no more of a toss about the lives of 500 million people then than it gives now.
EU vaccine policies are completely immaterial to anything whatsoever, even if they are nuts.
It's like waking up tomorrow and deciding that the CCP is bad because of its cheese policies.
Kevin Anderson is Greta's mentor -- the author of much of her bullshit, and as she was a child, partly responsible for her forming a devastatingly grim view of her future, which she then shared with countless children across the world.
Prof Iain Stewart has made some very decent TV shows in his time. But Earth: Climate Wars was not one of them. It was basically Naomi Oreskes's conspiracy theories, fronted by @Profiainstewart, in which he told a pack of porkies.
I.e., the argument that children should be given the vote treats adults like children.
It is a dangerous hollowing out of the concept of citizenship, and a transformation of the relationship between individuals and government.
You get to choose what colour you prefer.
In the green worldview, the state is the parent. It doesn't require the consent of the governed, it only requires obedience. Democratic expression is narrowed accordingly. Environmentalism has *ethics*, but not *politics* -- you don't need choice.