Trust me, were 2025 to be the year of 47, many of those now vociferously defending Israel would be out on the streets denouncing ongoing genocide as a proxy for denouncing the color orange—all the while sincere in conviction of having had a come to prophet-of-choice moment to know better now than they had in 2024.
Shouldn't have to go this way—would not be better if it did.
But organizing ain't something that just happens. People ain't anywhere near as simple as that—and organizers are people.