Reminds me of nuclear weapons protests back in the 70s and 80s, which accomplished nothing, and assured that anti-nuke politicians and organizations were frozen out of the policy world.
Self-actualizing stunts like this convince no one, and I'd bet have zero effect on Manchin. /1
Self-actualizing stunts like this convince no one, and I'd bet have zero effect on Manchin. /1
https://twitter.com/johnpaul_mejia/status/1456226720713953285
And before any of you get misty-eyed thinking protests against nukes got anywhere: Yes, people in the 80s were scared, and rightly so. The Cold War was getting hot. That didn't stop anything. And Reagan proposed SDI in part to undercut the arguments of anti-nuke protesters. /2
Reagan and Gorbachev took the first steps back from the brink, but I'd argue that super-dramatic protests actually made that harder to do for a while. Sometimes, protests make it harder for political leaders to back down, because they don't want to be seen as caving to them. /3
In any case, yelling at Joe Manchin isn't going to do much, and will likely hurt more than help, but... performers gotta perform, I guess. /4x
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