Iraq War was preceded by the largest worldwide non-violent protests in history and the war happened anyway.
Those non-violent protests shook them so bad they wanted to charge non-violent Quaker protestors with terrorism.
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As someone that was at the protest, at no point did I think it would result in the war stopping. It was still worthwhile, however. In retrospect, the war was so much worse than any of us knew at the time and also based on flimsy and/or no evidence of WMD. Business as usual in America. We'd do it all over again today, I have no doubt.
They knew there weren't WMDs and used the fear of 9/11 attacks to push the war. They had OpEd pieces published to further push the idea of WMDs.
IIRC, Biden championed that, right?
No, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell, Rice, and a bunch of others in the administration championed it. Biden et al supported it. Subtle.
Congress basically believed what they were told by the warmongers.
Barbara Lee did NOT support it
Huh, I thought he was critical in making the case. I'm no political historian tho.
No, not today, but give it a couple of years.
"Two more weeks"
I wish there was a prediction market about this outcome, as I would gladly bet against it. I don't see America suddenly growing a spine. As long as there is (fast) food available and the electricity and football games are flowing, 99.999% aren't picking up that pistol.
I would say it laid the ground work for OccupyWallstreet, which laid the ground work for modern progressive movement.
What change was accomplished by OccupyWallstreet?
They were angry about economic inequality -- it's worse today than in 2011.
They wanted an end to corporate personhood -- still totally cookin' in 2024 with no end in sight
More regulation of the financial sector -- we are more deregulated than ever today
I had to admire their aims, but as a movement it was profoundly ineffective...
I think it absolutely laid down the base for the modern progressive movement - mistakenly believing protests do anything on their own
Occupy was huge, it was global and persisted for a long time, but it didn't have any teeth - people just stopped paying attention and eventually police cleared people out
No one (rich) was losing money, no one (rich) felt threatened or inconvenienced in any way. They made their feelings known... But most people had no idea why or what they wanted, and politicians don't actually care what you want. They didn't even organize enough to be a voting block or clearly communicate their message