Brother Bemused

The 3.5% Rule

"Historians who study social movements worldwide have coined the term "3.5% rule" -- that throughout history, few authoritarian governments have withstood 3.5% of their population peacefully mobilized against them in a sustained way."

KC crowd

Per MoveOn.org, the recent No Kings rallies sponsored by Indivisible numbered some 5 million protestors at 2,100 events, adding that the 3.5% rule "helps us understand just how big our movement needs to get to stop Trump's tyranny -- on the order of more than 11 million people showing up again and again."

How about next time, and the times after, we "each one bring one?"

June 20 update

HOPEFUL NEWS: CBS reports that "Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are looking to limit President Trump's ability to order U.S. strikes on Iran amid its ongoing war with Israel, emphasizing that only Congress has the power to declare war under the Constitution." Where is the resolution by which Congress has granted to President Trump the authority to bomb Iran? Meanwhile, the entire world holds its breath awaiting the decision of one man regarding the fate of the Middle East, and possibly the globe itself.