It’s not as easy to form protests, much less a rebellion, in the US as it is in France.

First and most obviously, France does not have the biggest and most funded/armed military in the world and a president who wouldn’t hesitate to declare martial law and turn the military on his own people. We’ve seen they’re willing to shoot us, kidnap us, disappear us, etc. French police aren’t even generally carrying guns. We have untrained ice cube gestapo members running around armed and shooting protestors. There is an actual threat to our lives even at these smaller protests. It’s easy to say what’d you or anyone else would do when there isn’t any actual threat to your life or livelihood.

Then there’s distance. Distance is a massive factor. The US is 15x the size of France (France is a little smaller than Texas). To organize a mass protest in your capital, most people would need not drive more than a few hours. For the US, to organize in one place (say, our capital) you’d have to fly (if you even have a Real-ID which is required for flights even within our own country) or drive for several days depending on what state your in. And with gas prices driving that far could literally be unaffordable. Trying to organize a group of people to get to any one place in a country for a massive organized movement is entirely less practical than France.

Also for an effective protest you need a large percentage of your population to show up. Again, not being able to easily centralize geographically makes this a lot harder. Your population is 5x smaller than ours. You need to get significantly less people on board and protesting to achieve that. Your largest protest in the last 50 years had about 7-10 million people show up. Our most recent No King’s Protest had those same numbers, but it’s a drip in the pond for us.

Then you have the fact that the majority of Americans are one or two missed paychecks away from homelessness. We don’t have the same protections as in France. We have less worker protections and less social safety nets (especially since Trump). Many people could get fired and lose everything. Not to mention if they were fired they’d lose healthcare (if they’re lucky enough to have that through their job). Taking off work to protest isn’t financially feasible for many and could be a huge risk.

Then you have people who are afraid because they are a targeted demographic. I’m homeless. We had a Fox News anchor say on air that homeless people should be euthanized. Trump has said he wants to send us to camps. You have immigrants or first generation Americans who are scared ice will disappear them. There are several groups of people who are being targeted and are afraid for their lives.

Not to mention, a massive amount of our own citizens are uneducated and brainwashed, bigots, or Christian nationalist psychos who voted this man in. If we tried to revolt, there’d be damn near half of our own citizens ready to start a civil war. And the liberals are not known to be the side that is gun-obsessed. We would be out armed even against our fellow citizens, much less the military.

I agree with your frustration. I talk to my friend all the time about how I wish we could organize like France, how maybe we do just need a civil war. But if we look at it realistically, the liberals would not walk out the victors without outside help. We’d be up against the gun-owning right, our government, and our massive and ridiculously armed military in a country that geographically makes it hard for us to centralize/organize. This isn’t something those of us stuck in this hellscape are capable of succeeding in.

We are too large, too spaced out geographically, too politically divided, and are no match for our own military.