May be phrasing it wrong, but I look at actions like Labor rights, Pride, Civil Rights, Black Panthers, etc. where actions of protesters felt much intense and made more of an impact in actually changing things vs now where there are protests but it feels like it constantly falls of deaf ears.
Have we just not hit that breaking point yet? Have we collectively been beat down so hard? Or have we forgotten how to truly fight for rights? Or… am I just completely off the mark and missing something else?
Consider Nixon resigning over Watergate, which would be small beans today.
This all started with Wilson and his Southern Revisionist cohorts. They changed the law in 1874 illegally. Had that clause not been eliminated, Wilson and by extension the modern GOP and “Police,” wouldn’t have had immunity from prosecution, which is what the 1871 Congress intended when they passed Federal Statute Section 1983. Also Qualified Immunity would be recognized as the unconstitutional and illegal bullshit mealy mouthed lawyering that it is.
http://web.archive.org/web/20230520080201/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/15/us/politics/qualified-immunity-supreme-court.html
Holy smoke! This is huge!