Posted on 08/11/2019 8:01:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The formula p=mv might just be the E=mc2 of protest. A new study shows it’s not how many turn out for a demonstration that counts, it’s also how often.
PARIS—From Algeria to Hong Kong, Sudan to Puerto Rico, people all over the world have been turning out in the streets this year to confront policies and regimes that previously seemed all but invulnerable. And through relentless, largely peaceful protests they’ve had amazing success.
There is a lesson here. Americans disgusted by Donald J. Trump, disheartened by his control over the Senate and Supreme Court, demoralized by the consistent support he enjoys from two-fifths of the population, and appalled by his incitement of gun-toting racists, might want to take note.
The examples of mass demonstrations that have taken on, and in some cases taken down, terrible leaders show there are formulas that can be applied in many places, including the mainland of the United States of America. There’s even an illustrative equation.
In a study published this month by the scientific journal Nature, Erica Chenoweth and Margherita Belgioioso look at what they call “the physics of dissent” drawing on the simple law that momentum equals mass times velocity (p=mv).
“When movements maintain mass and velocity, they maintain momentum,” the authors tell us, and momentum is what’s required to achieve results.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
AKA it’s only democracy when we get our own way.
The left wing nuts had their protests right after the 2016 election. How’d that go?
That didn’t work so well in Tiamennan Square.
Our poorest people are the most likely to be obese and are the most entertained poor people ever. Our poorest are generally unused to hard physical labor outdoors and in all weather. These are all things that have never happened before, at least in recorded history. It’s hard to picture any sort of sustained demonstrations of large scale that would disrupt the system that allows such conditions.
Freegards
Are there any rational people left in that party? Stupid question. Of course not. They’re all insane!
Another reminder that the Left is unfit for power.
Whoever wrote this clap trap doesn't know history and doesn't understand anything at all!
During the end of Nixon's first term, there were MASSIVE anti-War protests, which led to President Nixon winning a second term in a LANDSLIDE!
ALL LIBS ARE LUNATICS . It is only a matter of degree .
Interesting how democratic socialists reject democracy if the result is not socialism.
Shhh...let them riot in the streets. Never get in the way of your Enemy when they are actively destroying themselves.
The rest of the time it’s a REPUBLIC!
Yup. Noted in #12 of this thread.
LOL...so true! :-)
And I said it FIRST! :-)
Bump
The hilarious irony of course being:
The main reason why the people in those aforementioned places have been able to rise up in the first place is due to the Trump effect and the conditions which result as natural outcome of his truth to globalist power policies!!!!!!!!!!!!
Trump Was Elected by the
People that were fed up
With the “System”,,,
Am I confused?
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