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why protests don't work in the long run
starting a following is easy to do if you know how, for instance an opposing ideal. what usually happens next is a formulation of people organised to start a protest against the ideal by means of (ideally) peaceful marches to grab attention
so why doesn't it work?
once the protest is over, people who joined the protest but were sitting on the fence, so to speak, will do nothing further and think their work has been done.
i'm not entirely sure, but i think the majority of the protestors in a lot of cases of protests would have an almost 'sitting on the fence' frame of mind where they wouldn't do anything further than attend the protest.
i've noticed that protestors sometimes seem to think that the people in power over an ideal are almost completely wrong on all of their ideals, and victimize them by bending the truth about them, or even spreading completely false information about them.
this is not the way to change things positively for the future. in fact what usually happens is the people in power will smother the flame of the protest, and nothing gets accomplished.
solution?
work THROUGH the system to get things changed. if people don't take you seriously when you offer an opposing ideal, get signatures proving that there are more people who agree with your opposing ideal, and take it to those in power to help them realise there is a problem with their original ideal.
only then, will the formulation of think-tanks to find solutions to problems that they were unaware of in the first place begin to form. perhaps with signatures AND original ideas from the people who sign about the opposing ideal, would it be possible to solve a problem.
simply put: a protest grabs attention, but only for a short while.
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Salim Solaiman 50+
Protesting people ends no where if leader on whom people trust on is not there to give the direction.
Most failed protests either due to lack of having a leader or due to failure of leader to lead through.
Marija Kovačević
Salim Solaiman 50+
That's really sad, when a valid protest lose it way because those clowns or even without having right leader to move forward people. I saw similar thing to happen in my country as well.
Now I am afraid the much talked Egyptian movement might end up into same fate as I don't see any clear leadership to take people forward to the right direction (may be it is there , I am just ignorant).
griffin tucker 10+
this may be going off topic, but is it really necessary to have a leader to express popular opinion? have there been any occurrences that anyone knows of where a leader is not imposed yet still functions well as a society or an expression of opinion?
Marija Kovačević
Salim Solaiman 50+
Considering the overall psyche of the region as a whole getting Lady President will really be good move forward.
But did that movement happen only to change a president ?
The deep desire of people is to have an pardigm shift in their socio-political system which was medieval and tyranically autocratic. I don't see any leader out there who is shaping up that desire of people for a change with giant leap and directing people towards that goal.
Just getting another president through election keeping all other thing same , will just make another tyrant , thats my fear.
I hate to see people's dream broken........
Joseph Ulrich
Salim Solaiman 50+
Thanks for your thoughts. Those are figures you mentioned are universal role model may be of all time. Other than those great figures one can easily find out an effective vissionary leadership taking forward mass protests in to a constructive future.
Riots shouldn't be considered as a protest, it's an outbrust of long standing untreated social disease... it has got no constructive motive behind other than some opportunist taking opportunity to doing crime at their freedom..................