Mine doesn’t list a source (and it has very few pixels if you try to zoom in) so take it with a grain of salt, but they at least appear to be attempting to make it as close to a 1:1 comparison as possible. And I agree, we don’t need the whole country to mobilize as one, but let’s look at how the US has ~50 individual specks of purple separated by vast areas of white/tan/orange, even in the more well known states like New York, Texas, and California. Meanwhile, Europe is basically ALL purple and orange until you get to mountainous areas like the Scandinavian hinterland.

If I’m living in a small town in southern France and I want to protest, I could hop on the train and be in Paris in like, 6 hours at most. If I lived in a small town in let’s say, the (Eastern) Midwest and wanted to do the same in Washington DC, well public transport is already out of the question in the VAST majority of cases (trains here don’t visit small towns unless it’s for industrial reasons), so I’m gonna have to drive myself. 6 hour drive to DC puts my starting location somewhere around Columbus, Ohio (dead center of Ohio, but arguably not even in the Midwest depending on who you ask, or at least on the outer rim of it). Pretty much anything further west than that (2/3s of the country at least) and I’m looking at a multi-day investment just to GET to the protest, not to mention all the other shit that goes along with it. You could always try protesting at the State capitals, but those will automatically be lesser in size and effectiveness (no one cares if 1 out of 50 states is having problems, that’s literally happening all the time) and depending on my state, that might still be an all-day drive.

I like your idea of using the internet to help, but the reality of the situation is that without human bodies physically showing up, there’s no real incentive for DC to actually DO anything. There have been millions, possibly billions, of critical things said about Trump’s administration online, but that hasn’t changed anything for the better.

Lastly, like you said, we both agree that propoganda is one of the biggest obstacles here, but I don’t know how much we agree on us ‘having more power than we seem to know’. I’ve seen various estimates and each time the number seems to be increasing, but roughly HALF of all American households will be out of money if they go two or three months without a paycheck. Period. We have no social safety net. If you’re deemed ‘good enough to work’ then you better be working, otherwise you’re homeless which, in this country, might as well be a death sentence. Sure, there are a small handful of exceptions to this, but they put up so many roadblocks and hoops to jump through that trying to get on and stay on Welfare is basically a job in and of itself, and they will only provide you with the bare essentials; if you even think about one luxury good, that money disappears instantly.

As much as I hate to admit it, in America, the Capitalists have won for the time being and there’s really nothing to be done about it short of a complete overhaul of MOST of how this country operates