There need to be massive protests/riots about this shit. I'm talking about showing up on senators' lawns with 10,000 or more people with guns (to keep police at a distance) or some shit. These people need to fucking FEAR US, the fucking voters or they will continue to rape our society out of existence.

If money is considered speech, it becomes the only speech that really matters...

Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent every year to make it that way

It wasn't that Americans forgot...

It's that Israel spent millions of dollars to keep them out of office. Mostly because they kept mentioning Israel is activating committing a genocide, but considering their practice of giving Black Israeli immigrants birth control for years while telling them it was vaccines....

They likely weren't a fan of BLM either.

The short attention span part is when Harris and Walz have both given speeches at the annual AIPAC conferences but people are pretending they're perfect because they're not 20 years past retirement age.

I'm still hoping they'll do the right thing while in office, and they'll undoubtedly be better than Biden or trump...

But they're miles away from perfect. And pretending they are won't help anything, it just means they only get pressure to move to the right.

sure, AIPAC and continuing genocide had nothing to do with it

You can bet Bernie would have made police reform happen.

He would have tried. But there's a real and persistent fear that corporate money would have turned on him during the general election and sunk his campaign.

Consider that Biden only squeaked by with 40,000 votes across three states, even in a media environment that was heavily favorable.

I can see Sanders going out to Trump like Corbyn did in the UK, and for the same reasons.

While MeToo and BLM were fairly short-lived political movements, they had an incredibly large and positive impact on the culture.

I think MeToo is still felt, and its my perception that it's changed culture and attitudes in a way that will persist, even as I acknowledge it's not complete.

I'm expecting another BLM-style country-wide protest in about another twenty years when it turns out once again we've done nothing but wallpaper over the status quo on police brutality. The only thing that gives me some hope is that we're clearly into the era where everyone having a good camera in their pocket is a wildcard that so far seems to be a very positive detail most of the time.

they had an incredibly large and positive impact on the culture.

I wish this was true, but I've only seen our financial commitment to police violence increase over time.

But for gay marriage, I can’t think of many things which were as widely accepted as the fight for racial equality

Yeah....

Look at all the people who get REAL fucking pissy if you say "LGBT" instead of "LGB"

And as for racial equality? At the same time people were acknowledging the systemic prejudice against black people (but not acknowledging TOO hard because still gotta get theirs) EVERYONE, left and right, were making snide remarks about how COVID was China's fault and Asian elders were being attacked in the street. And we were told to shut up because it was detracting from the real issues. And... we did because that is what we have been trained to do.

The BLM protests were a beautiful thing and I marched as part of my state efforts. But, like with most activist movements, it was immediately forgotten once something else happened (or, in this case, we were allowed outside again). But it was incredibly specific and mostly just highlighted people's inability to care about multiple things at a time.

But hey, we solved racism in the same exact way we solved sexuality and gender!

Came here to ask the same question. Hopefully, it doesn't require a handful of activists to change policy and change institutional norms for the positive.

Literally

Not necessarily? Just because these politicians supported BLM doesn’t mean they represent other qualities that their constituents want. You can’t run or sustain your position on a single issue

Edit I think the AIPAC funding is more about creating a legend about how big and bad and effective it is, but couldn’t unseat Omar, a bigger thorn for such a funding body. I think these Squad politicians need to reflect their constituents more