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I believe that in order for the American Citizen to re-gain control over its own government, Americans must begin to integrate protesting into our culture. CMV.

**TLDR: French people have a "Protest Season" where every year they stop working and go out and make their government listen to them. The United States culturally does not have this, and we suffer because of it.** 

So I hosted a foreign exchange student from france a few years ago. When talking about politics one of the first things he mentioned was "Protest Season". This was a time in the spring every year when nearly every french citizen gets together within their communities to get their governments to listen to them. Work stops. School stops. It's almost like a holiday for kids because the school closes and they all get together with their teachers and other people in the community and make signs and protest until they get what they want. AND THEY ALWAYS DO. At least a portion of what they want. Every year, french people in every town across france get together and make their towns, counties, cities, and even the federal government LISTEN to their demands and FORCE them to respond by refusing to work until the issues are addressed. 

I believe that because Americans do NOT do this, we have allowed our local, state, and federal governments to operate unchecked and unchallenged for years. I believe that because we have allowed these problems to become so large, they appear unassailable by a small group of individuals. But if there were numerous small groups of individuals who **believe that it is their duty as a citizen to oppose their government** on certain issues every year, problems like the NSA and Prism could have been stopped in their tracks because upon the news breaking the ENTIRE NATION would have shut down and been in the streets protesting.
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French here, there's no such thing as "protest season". It sounds more like a joke about how french are always on strike.

It's true that the french won't hesitate to go on strikes, but most of the time it's the public sector or companies on the brink of bankruptcy.

There are a lot of public protests about different subjects, that's true, but usually during the weekend ("manifs"). People don't stop working to join a protest.

French are pretty much lazy when it comes to participating in politics though. We are pretty much apathetic like most developed countries. We have a corrupt elite of politicians who come from the same school and always favor their friends. We bitch about it all the time but they stay in office for decades.

So France is pretty much a bad example OP. Better look at Switzerland for inspiration.