Climate activists are entitled to protest but not entitled to win.
from Louisiana, where climate activists are opposing a new project to build new carbon-capture facilities. The project has support from the state’s governor, John Bel Edwards, and from Leroy Sullivan, the mayor of the town where the new project will be located. But Sullivan’s support, theA second problem with the fetishization of community input is that it rants power to people with the strongest beliefs, rather than simply assume elected officials can best represent their constituents.
There is a strain of thought on the left that holds that activists ipso facto represent the people. Democracy, therefore, means deferring to the wishes of the activists, even if elected officials chosen by the people don’t agree with their position. , in a column arguing that community meetings dominated by a tiny number of interested residents and professional activists aremore democratic than decisions by elected legislatures, notes that progressives have a favorite slogan that appears at nearly any protest: “This is what democracy looks like!”
I think this line is useful to activists because it has two quite different meanings that appeal to different strands of progressives. To a liberal, it simply means that democracy entails a right to public protest. A protest is what democracy looks like because democracies include rights like freedom of speech.
To a radical, however, a protest is not merely a protected right within democracy but its highest form.democracy is advanced through direct action, which can involve either peaceful or violent protest. The protesters represent a vanguard of the people, and their organized activation of suppressed grievances represents the culmination of democracy. Protest cannot merely supplement elected representation butI am not trying to suggest the climate-justice movement is inherently undemocratic.
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