Are we in the post-protest age? Protest does not seem to work anymore.?

Answer 1

Protests didn't stop the Vietnam war either. Believe it or not, the majority of the country supported the Vietnam War and were not protesting. If you look at actual statistics, the protesters were the youth, not the majority of the country (the old fogeys). The voters right now are the baby boomers and up. They aren't the kids. The youth just doesn't vote enough to off set the old guard. Sucks, huh?

Answer 2

I think you are right. It has become a rather ignored form. Over here in the states we have protested quite a bit against the war, against torture and about the vote tampering in the last two presidential elections - and not a thing happened. The powers that be and the public, and indeed the world, ignored it.

I think people took it too far with protesting almost everything everyday when there really was no urgent call to do so ...for their own egos ...and now it doesn't even register

Answer 3

Protest, in and of itself, never worked. It was tens of thousands of people standing up for what they believed in that worked. People are, generally, too lazy nowadays to go out and stand up for anything in large enough numbers for anyone else to care. A real protest, or another march in Washington, could still make people open their eyes and take notice. Chances are, though, that nobody's going to go to the trouble. To be honest, there never really was a protest age, unless you count from '68 or so to '72 as an 'age', and even then that was really just one big whiney protest about the same damn thing, broken up into smaller groups of whiney people. After '72, nobody really had anything to complain about, or at least nothing that they really cared enough about to protest. This is, of course, thanks to the fact that the media didn't have anything else to butcher, misinterpet and blow out of proportion for the masses to get angry about. So, as a roundabout way of answering your question, yes, we are in the age where protesting has fallen out of favor and is no longer large scale enough to make a difference.

Answer 4

Of course protest doesn't work. Look at the protestors...do they look like people with any shred of credibility? No, they look like complete clowns.

"You can get much further with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone." -- Al Capone

Answer 5

protests never did anything. politicians in charge make the decisions

Answer 6

good question, what we do now.

Answer 7

why do you think there is so much violence?