Asklemmy

You've asked two different questions.

1. Why don't the democratic voters actually riot

• First, riots are illegal. I think you mean protest.
• Protest what? He was just elected president. A bit more than the majority of the electorate made this choice so we all have to deal with it. It's called democracy.
• He ran a relatively transparent campaign. So far, all he's done is sign executive orders we all knew he was going to do. A majority of Americans voted for these actions.

2. Why are the journalist bending over to Musk?

• Why aren't they calling his nazi salute a nazi solute? Fear.
• I read an article saying Jon Stewart was the only one the mentioned Musk's salute. I watched the segment and, while he did mention it, he did not call it a nazi salute. He tried to, in Jon's funny way, make an excuse for what he was doing.
• I suspect there are legal reasons for not calling this a nazi salute. Likely defamation.
• There's also people / organizations (like the ADL) who, for whatever reason, need to be kept in the good grace's of these powerful people or who need to maintain their seat at one table or another.

Nearly 78 million people voted for this, and another 90 million stayed home and said they didn't care.

The whole point of democracy is to allow everyone to express their opinions through votes instead of violence. So either the election was rigged or the country wanted fascism.

You want the real answer?

Inertia.

Think about the scene in Fight Club where the homework is to go out and start a fight. It isn’t easy. Most people have never hit another person their entire lives. Men who punch walls or tear their shirts off to throw down with someone over perceived offenses are not the normal. That’s tail of the bell curve behavior. If it wasn’t, people would be fighting in parking lots everywhere you go.

The inertia of most peoples lives is to avoid conflict. This is why only a handful of people in any building you happen to be standing in are suited to leadership roles.

Now, if you can get one of those guys in the right conditions to stir up a mob hive mind then the game changes. Until then, most people will be propelled forward by inertia and conflict avoidance.

Cause they're spineless

If you can't even get people to care enough to lift a pen and mark a ballot (or press a button on some machine), how do you get people to riot?

Why are the journalist bending over to Musk?

Because performative protest like wearing pussy hats isn't actually as effective as general strikes or direct action.

The McResistance fades because that's all it ever was.

There was a lot more demonstrations and outrage during Trump's first term. I think now everyone is just exhausted and over it. Dems got beaten pretty bad in the election, and are probably very demoralized after this outcome. Maybe it will add up to a landslide in the next senate/congress election, maybe not.

Because for many people, political unrest is the problem they're trying to avoid, and their problem with the new administration is that it is a catalyst for unrest.

Someone mad that our 45/7th President upsets the applecart isn't going to go flip an applecart themselves in protest.

To what end? People were warned. People lived through 4 years of this. People remember the shortages and inept handling og COVID. People voted for this.

A lot of people are pretty pissed at the dems for not doing enough too. They're so obsessed with being a party for everyone that they've become a party for no one, theres a huge divide between what people want and what they're doing. They need to unify, organize and take some stances even if it pisses some people off. I think a lot of people are just demoralized and "politically homeless" as in they just don't identify with either party so what is the point? What would be cool is if a bunch of randoms ran third party on their own ideas and formed a coalition but good luck with that

Because liberals are cowards.

I think another point is hope, even if people start large protests, riots, etc. What can it achieve, who will achieve it? Short of a full revolution, will anything have an effect?

Trump wont step down even if the country is alight, with republicans in power in senate they wont impeach or muzzle trump.

Any sort of protests needs ro have a goal, something you can imagine it will achieve. If you cant picture anything postive coming from it, why would you want to?

Would rioting actually make anything better? Seems like people have more to lose by rioting than they do by posting a mean tweet

Because the left never does anything. They'll whine and say this is unfair not how it's supposed to be, that's illegal. And that is as far as it goes. The right does shit and here we are. Only going to get worse and anyone who says ohbits only 4 years sure maybe till the next one.

(IMO) Because many people don't want a solution to the things that bother them. People need a villian regardless of how they have to manipulate their own narrative