4,970,000 To Go To Get to Professor Chenoweth's 3.5% on Parlez Vous Monday

 

Many thoughts

I wonder often how many of our theories we can & should actually hang onto – not just as a matter of giving what is happening now historical context (more necessary), but I find myself wondering about the extent to which the theories have been tested in environments WHILE widespread federal corruption and enforced apathy are actively corrupting the populace

 

The 3.5% rule is a political science concept developed by Professor Erica Chenoweth of Harvard University, which posits that no government has withstood a challenge of 3.5% of its population mobilized against it during a peak nonviolent event

https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/carr/publications/questions-answers-and-some-cautionary-updates-regarding-35-rule#

From the Center for American Progress

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/how-peaceful-protest-by-just-3-5-percent-of-americans-could-force-major-policy-changes-from-the-trump-administration

 

The U.S. has approximately 342,000,000 people

3.5% of that is the population percentage needed in any country to get its so-called "leadership" forced off any autocratic track it's currently on, according to Professor Erica Chenoweth's pro-democracy studies

That's 11,790,000 people in the United States

That (if my math is correct -- is 4,970,000 MORE people than were out at the last No Kings protest, where 7 million people were amassed

The one before that - there were 5 million people 

The one before that - "only" 3 million

So if ever there were a time for a big push ...

/just saying

Can we talk about the Manosphere – a manifested part of the wider national (and international) problem – without having to subject our collective nervous systems to the actual documentary

I think we can

Therese has a piece that came out both before the documentary did and before the war started

“ICE Is A Way to Deal with Surplus Males”

and I am also glad to see trained therapists drawing parallels

"When History Repeats: The Golden Child Gets Betrayed"

"𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘦, 𝘗𝘢𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘬 𝘸𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘴𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘶𝘮𝘢 𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘶𝘱 𝘢𝘵 𝘢 𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘭𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘨𝘢𝘴𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘦𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘳 𝘥𝘺𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘴.

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰 𝘣𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘊𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘺 𝘒𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘺, 𝘐𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯 1920, 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘢 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘛𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘺’𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘨𝘦. 𝘗𝘢𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘬 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺, 𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘏𝘪𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘳’𝘴 𝘚𝘈 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵-𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘐𝘊𝘌, 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵 𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘣𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦."