What’s funny in a wry sort of way is that the protests aren’t even like the uprisings of 2020. They are just small groups of registered students, at good schools, saying ‘we don’t like US involvement with Israeli apartheid, war crimes, or ethnic cleansing.’ And the political establishment, on both ‘sides’ of the corporate coin, is losing their shit as if the whole country is burning.
It’s because the 2020 crowd could be easily dealt with long-term within the confines of the political and economic machinery. They could pay lip service to ‘equal rights’ and ‘social justice’ and ‘democracy’ and all the other liberal anti-Trump talking points, and then they could put those marginalized communities out of sight again when they were no longer useful. Now it’s the future leaders and functionaries who are calling out the very nature of the whole system.
And, power is freaking over it. Not because the people or their presence in public are particularly dangerous, but because their message is extremely dangerous to the way this country works. America isn’t about freedom or justice or equality or opportunity. It’s a very centralized, imperial, dishonest, exploitative construct that cares nothing for life or for right and wrong. The slightest breeze can and will blow it over and expose the lie of the whole thing, and the powerful know it.