They've been an imminent threat for decades now!

It's important to understand that change happens when we force change to happen, not when we implore the people who have already decided not to make change to reconsider. Demonstrations are great to raise awareness of the issue, but when it comes to actually changing anything, they're pretty crap. At best they can scare someone into making change if they think the demonstrators might get violent if they don't, like how the black panthers scared politicians into that very belief during the civil rights movement.

The issue now is that nobody believes we'll actually get violent, and for good reason. Generations have been raised on the idea that "violence is never the answer." Basically our only option to really make change is to use our numbers against them, but that means that some people are going to need to overcome their conditioning and volunteer to be the first to make the choice to rise up, likely to their own demise. If we can't do that, we're screwed, so the question is how bad does it need to be for it to happen, and will it be too late by then?

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