Crumpets
Thinking Crumpets Crumpet
Atlas Icon
Posts: 17,869
Political Matrix
E: -4.06, S: -6.52
|
 |
« on: February 06, 2022, 07:36:56 PM » |
|
|
« edited: February 06, 2022, 08:07:00 PM by Crumpets »
|
You can make whatever arguments in favor or against these protesters you want, but at the end of the day, they're only making themselves and their positions less popular with every passing moment. At this point, it seems like their strategy is going to be to try to deliberately draw a heavy-handed response to build sympathy, but that only works if people don't see you as a threat, which it's clear most Canadians do, and at an increasing rate with every passing day.
And that's something that is in contrast to at least the early days of the George Floyd protests. Public opinion was largely behind them, and they did manage to get some wins as a result - some police departments being reformed, city budgets being reworked, and most of all, the arrest of Derek Chauvin. But once they lost public opinion, their wins started to slip away. The truckers here never had public opinion on their side to begin with.
|
