Actually, the small things are wildly more important. It's the same reason why Trump being president didn't stop Leftism. It couldn't. Politics is downstream from culture, not the other way around.
Those small protests are unifying communities against Queer activism. Buying Eric July's comic books supports an anti-parallel economy. This is why the government declared school board protests terrorism, and why they are obsessed with memes and shutting down external outlets.
The reality of authoritarian systems is that they are top-down and insanely instable without constant maintenance. Totalitarianism requires unlimited scope because if the scope stops expanding, the entire system collapses. The Left is leaning hard into both authoritarianism and totalitarianism. Very simple efforts at undermining it can cause cascade failures. If you limit the scope of a totalitarian system, it collapses. If you undermine the authority of an authoritarian system, it breaks the illusion of control. If you prevent maintenance, it inevitably causes catastrophic failure.
The Leftists are well aware of these activities, and how powerful they can be, it's why "community organizers" are actually a thing on the political left, and why those positions are genuinely important. The value of these things is so important, it's why the Left deploy Antifa against protestors, why teachers and teachers unions emphasize that students are students and not children of their parents.
Organic, grass roots, momentum is something that is very difficult to stop. It's also difficult to start when it's inorganic. The Left has always dreamed of "The General Uprsising" that organically takes place and ends Capitalism. But it keeps never happening, so they adopted Leninist tactics (because he knew how to properly create an inorganic uprising). The political right has a major advantage of basically having all organic political resistance in the world, but doesn't know how to exploit it, and is to subverted by Leftist narratives to understand that they have a huge advantage, even without institutional power.
Actually, the small things are wildly more important. It's the same reason why Trump being president didn't stop Leftism. It couldn't. Politics is downstream from culture, not the other way around.
Those small protests are unifying communities against Queer activism. Buying Eric July's comic books supports an anti-parallel economy. This is why the government declared school board protests terrorism, and why they are obsessed with memes and shutting down external outlets.
The reality of authoritarian systems is that they are top-down and insanely instable without constant maintenance. Totalitarianism requires unlimited scope because if the scope stops expanding, the entire system collapses. The Left is leaning hard into both authoritarianism and totalitarianism. Very simple efforts at undermining it can cause cascade failures. If you limit the scope of a totalitarian system, it collapses. If you undermine the authority of an authoritarian system, it breaks the illusion of control. If you prevent maintenance, it inevitably causes catastrophic failure.
The Leftists are well aware of these activities, and how powerful they can be, it's why "community organizers" are actually a thing on the political left, and why those positions are genuinely important. The value of these things is so important, it's why the Left deploy Antifa against protestors, why teachers and teachers unions emphasize that students are students and not children of their parents.
Organic, grass roots, momentum is something that is very difficult to stop. It's also difficult to start when it's inorganic. The Left has always dreamed of "The General Uprsising" that organically takes place and ends Capitalism. But it keeps never happening, so they adopted Leninist tactics (because he knew how to properly create an inorganic uprising). The political right has a major advantage of basically having all organic political resistance in the world, but doesn't know how to exploit it, and is to subverted by Leftist narratives to understand that they have a huge advantage, even without institutional power.