There are increasing numbers of protests in cities across the United States, triggered by the Trump Administration’s deportation pronouncement, policies,
The authors coined a rule about the level of participation necessary for a movement to succeed, called the “3.5% rule”: nearly every movement with active participation from at least 3.5% of the population succeeded.[8][9] All of the campaigns that achieved that threshold were nonviolent.[10]
He may be a symptom but he is also a focusing lense, think of him like a magnifying glass starting fires. The sun is still a problem and the conditions for fire are still present but at the very least without the magnifying glass actively starting fires it’s a lot easier to deal with.
I have read books by Mark Penn and Malcolm Gladwell, which talk about that magical 3.5% as a “Tipping Point” that can kick off a trend. It’s not guaranteed, but historical records indicate that it takes at least 3.5% to reach critical mass.
In America, that’s about 11.5 - 12 million people.
The group’s name derives from the erroneous[6][7] claim that “the active forces in the field against the King’s tyranny never amounted to more than 3% of the colonists” during the American Revolution.[8]
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It’s important to remember that Trump isn’t the problem, he’s a symptom.
The pressure needs to increase until the problem is solved.
He may be a symptom but he is also a focusing lense, think of him like a magnifying glass starting fires. The sun is still a problem and the conditions for fire are still present but at the very least without the magnifying glass actively starting fires it’s a lot easier to deal with.
Yeah what’s the metric for success in protesting a cause so embedded in the roots?
You see the numbers that turned out for No Kings? Get those people to camp out in the streets and give it two weeks.
I have read books by Mark Penn and Malcolm Gladwell, which talk about that magical 3.5% as a “Tipping Point” that can kick off a trend. It’s not guaranteed, but historical records indicate that it takes at least 3.5% to reach critical mass.
In America, that’s about 11.5 - 12 million people.
FWIW, the rightists seem to have picked up on a similar number:
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