It's you. The citizens of the United States have the leverage, even when all else fails, at above 3.5 pcent
But it takes repeated and sustained effort protesting by more than 3.5 % of the populace (about 12 million), as discovered by studies of many regime changes. Like every weekend, say.
I was concerned that it might have been another doom post with a message hidden or otherwise to give up. It seems you have not given up (cheers), but I would give up on any notion of somebody or some organization riding in to save the US.
The person is here. It's you (collectively). You collectively will save the US but collectively it still requires individual people to get motivated one way or another to protest in a sustained way.
The next big protest is Saturday October 18.
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