Pod Save America: Do You Know The 3.5% Rule?

[Fiendish Thingy]

How nonviolent resistance succeeds in toppling autocracy when 3.5% or more of a nation’s population becomes engaged in the movement.

(Don’t let the length of the show dissuade you from listening, the guest does an excellent summary within the first 10 minutes)

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[msongs]

1. 5 mil protestors divided by 350 mil people is only 1.4%, at that number not even close to 3.5%

10 mil protestors only gets u up to 2.8%

[Fiendish Thingy]

4. Indeed. IMO, it would take a truly catastrophic government-initiated event to generate engagement at the 3.5% threshold

Something like the collapse of SS/Medicare, or the mass shooting of unarmed civilians by ICE or the military.

[fierywoman]

2. But if you use the number 154,000,00 (amount who voted in the 2024 election) you get close

to the 3.5% -- there are also sources out there saying that when all is said and done ( & counted) that the number of protestors will be more than 5 million.

[Fiendish Thingy]

5. The 3.5% rule applies to the entire population of the nation

Not just the voters.

History and the evidence show it must be 3.5% of the entire nation engaged in active resistance in order to topple and authoritarian regime.

[fierywoman]

6. FWIW the counting of the protestors yesterday is now up to 11 million.

[Fiendish Thingy]

8. Source?

I do not believe that number.

Most reporting I have seen says 3-5 million.

[fierywoman]

9. https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220403528

[iemanja]

3. Really interesting interview.

[msongs]

7. it's a ton of people and nervous repubs certainly paid attention... hard core magats probably not nt