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Yeah, there are lots of memes about Europeans coming to visit America, and expecting to be able to visit New York, Seattle, the Grand Canyon, and Los Angeles in a single week. Because in Europe, you can literally just pop over to France for lunch, because it’s only like 45 minutes away. I drive 45 minutes to work every single day, in each direction.
It’s always a little bit funny (and a little bit sad) seeing a European posting about “why Americans haven’t lit the White House on fire yet?” It’s because 90% of Americans would need to drive for like a week just to reach the capitol. And even then, you’d only get the privileged few who were able to schedule time off of work for it.
This means American protests tend to be very localized. Maybe Dallas has a protest in Texas, but that is easily ignored by federal lawmakers because Dallas is like 1300 miles away. Hell, even state lawmakers won’t care about a protest in Dallas, because Dallas is like 200 miles away from its own state capitol.