Vice President JD Vance was met with hundreds of pro-Ukraine protesters while visiting a Vermont ski resort on Saturday, following his public dust up with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the White House.
Vance and his family, on a trip to Sugarbush Resort, were greeted by the outraged protesters lining the snow-covered streets of the small Vermont town of Waitsfield.
Protestors displayed signs that labeled Vance a “national disgrace,” accused him of being a “traitor” and encouraged the family to “go ski in Russia.”
If you feel bad for not doing enough that’s on you.
So you honestly think, that it is more beneficial to the cause to look down on people not doing enough instead of encouraging them to continue what they’re doing?
I’ll believe it when I see it. People are not doing enough, myself included. The reality around us is proof of this.
I know, it is frustrating, I also feel like everything’s doomed a lot of times, but I refuse to get drowned in this frustration.
If we can encourage others to engage more, then that’s a lot. Don’t underestimate what you’ve done so far. You can be an inspiration to others!
Even if they think organizing the community to raise local funds for deaf and blind kids, as well as grassroots organizations to delay big coal for a year, laying our in front of bulldozers and police cars, as “just protesting”? The same way these people are peacefully and safely holding signs outside a goddamn ski resort?! I’m not special, yet even I and others like me can risk our safety to get real results instead of peacefully be taken unseriously by the opposition. Just look at all the critical enlightened centrists in this thread.
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Kind of but not really relevant: As someone from an authoritarian state where you don’t really get to protest, I’d always wondered just how the whole protesting thing is supposed to work. Like you go out, hold some signs and chant some slogans and then politicians just listen to you??? Is that how democracy works??? In the last few years as I grew to understand how all that stuff works I learned the answer to that question, but I think many Westerners and Americans specifically really need to start thinking once about how what they’re doing is supposed to lead to results.
This was 100% relevant to what i’m trying to say, you just said it better than I could.
You can’t win without them, you’ve got to work with them.
Only if you work with them then you have the chance to radicalise some of them. If you don’t work with them the movement stays as small as it is.
I’ve had better luck turning MAGA towards leftism than any liberal. At least they have the balls to storm the US capitol, these so-called “protestors” with their JD Vance signs outside a ski resort are groupie cheerleaders for the status quo.