Reply #19: Protests have helped to a point.

[Jackie97]

They helped to raise awareness to the issue that all Americans don't support certain policies (like the war), causing more Americans to take up the cause. So many people supported the war with Iraq at first. I thought the protests were almost pointless. The next thing I knew, Bush was being exposed as somebody who "lied" about WMDs and about 50% of America said that the war with Iraq was a mistake. Now, Americans don't even want to go to Iran and North Korea for the most part. After the pro-choice march, Bush backed off of allowing our private records to be non-private. It does matter.

You are right though. The right are doing things that we're not in my opinion. They often try to participate in activities that lets the common man know that they care about them. Those right winged fundamentalists do a lot of charities for example. I realize that we (as liberals) do often go into secular charities, but maybe it's time to start up our own charities and similar groups to reach out to the community. Let the common man/woman know how much we care about them instead of just preaching at them about why they need to support a cause. Black Panthers did this when they helped bring food to the poor years ago.