> Protesting doesn’t do anything these days.

Protesting in the American sense - effectively-sanctioned inner-city riots far from the seats of power, performative kumbaya-singing, etc - sure doesn't. We could take a cue from the French: they've been shutting down their country with enormous strikes, including the electrical workers' unions shutting off power selectively to the mansions of rich people and politicians. Unfathomably based.