Visitors at Louvre look on in shock as Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece attacked by environmental protesters
Two environmental protesters have hurled soup on to the Mona Lisa at the Louvre in Paris, calling for “healthy and sustainable food”. The painting, which was behind bulletproof glass, appeared to be undamaged.
Gallery visitors looked on in shock as two women threw the yellow-coloured soup before climbing under the barrier in front of the work and flanking the splattered painting, their right hands held up in a salute-like gesture.
One of the two activists removed her jacket to reveal a white T-shirt bearing the slogan of the environmental activist group Riposte Alimentaire (Food Response) in black letters.
Even so, it’s just an objective fact that blocking traffic hurts the working poor far more than it hurts the wealthy and powerful high-status people who wield real power in society. It also, at least in the US, just further alienates blue collar people from the Democratic party and the political left, a demographic that they should own, but are losing and continuing to lose precisely because they are so tone deaf. The right does not block traffic, at least not as a tactic in itself, because they are smart enough to know that it just pisses people off. This difference is diagnostic of why the Democrats are steadily losing support from non-college-educated working people of all races.
Dude, these types of people are not working for the democratic party. The democratic party doesn’t want to change anything, which is the issue. That’s why other methods have to be used. Asking nicely and voting doesn’t cause the change that needs to happen. Sure, do it also, but don’t stop where the ruling class tells you to stop.
My point is that you won’t make the changes you want by alienating working people. What part about this do you not understand?
There’s a reason why working people are flocking to the authoritarian right and it has everything to do with this dismissive attitude on the left that basically tells them that they are unimportant, their issues don’t matter, everything about their culture is stupid and evil.
And then you expect them to take you seriously, as if you somehow have their best interests in mind?
I am actively involved in my Union’s leadership and I can tell you for a fact that what the far left in the US is doing and preaching is hugely unpopular among our rank and file membership.
You people want us to use the term “Latinx,” for example, and most of our Latino and Latina membership has no idea WTF that’s even supposed to mean, let alone the fact that it’s extremely condescending to tell people how they should use their own language.
So keep doing your precious bullshit, but don’t be surprised when you alienate working people and Trump wins another term.
I am warning you now, though I know it won’t do any good.