You missed the point of the reference by tying the either Civil Rights Movement and what MLK achieved to a very limited definition not held by most of the public.
So, what are you referencing? What MLK actually did was bring attention to local people who were doing stuff the Federal government didn't approve of, so that Federal power could be brought to bear to beat resisting local communities into compliance with National standards.
What I was thinking off is more looking at the Wu Flu vax stuff, the bullshit Marxist mandates handed down and the lies told to push it all, and how the ignoring of the bullshit mask and vax stuff, and using real data and facts to counter it, has met increasing success at actually getting to the ears of normies and such because people ignored the bullshit after it became clear the lies no longer held up about the vax's or things like Ivermectin/HCQ.
We showed the 'Right Wing' civil disobedience could work, and gain traction, because the Left and their backers have gone so fucking insane.
So, when we say this worked, what do we mean? In California and New York, did it remove any power from the people implementing the Mandates? Or did it merely let them grab power, and then as people got sick of it they felt the need to with withdraw a bit. So, they're power only grew by 20%, instead of 40%. Technically a victory, but not much.
In the left wing power centers, I'm not sure civil disobedience achieved, well, anything. At least politically. In fact doing a quick google of LA Times, they are still giving Fauci soft ball and generally
glowing interviews.
So, in the hearts of Progressivism, its quite unclear to me what political goal was advanced by civil disobedience against covid. I'm not even sure what mechanism would advance such a thing. Its clear what MLK engaging in activism in Alabama does: you provoke a response which then justifies a Federal crackdown on the area, and create tension and division between the local white and black elites.
Martyring yourself against the LA government does not have a similarly clear mechanism to turn the activism into power. The government in fact probably is gleeful at the opportunity, because it forces political enemies to potentially make public stands, marking them for destruction.
I should also be clear I'm specifically talking about civil disobedience as activism: political actions to achieve political goals. So, while not enforcing a vax mandate on your employees and hoping no one notices might count as civil disobedience, that's just skirting the law, in the same way some specifics of overly burdensome safety regulations may be glossed over. Doing illegals activity and hoping you get away with it is not civil disobedience purely with a hope to not get caught doesn't really count I think.
Right wing civil disobedience in Right wing areas might have generated better results. But, were back to the position of civil disobedience only really have value when people supportive of you are already there: for example, a Trump like republican clearly had misgivings about the mandates, but felt some pressure to go allong with them. Right wing Civil disobedience provides an excuse for management to do what they already wanted to do in such a case.
In other cases like Desantis is signals the unambiguously in charge right wing government the strength of the sentiment, and gives more confidences that they can push harder against the mainstream and they will still have support.
So, right wing civil disobedience can work, as long as there is already a right wing government to support the right wing activists.
Our civil rights movement now is about changing the political landscape so people like Fauci and his backers and the depopulation pushers like Gates end up at Supreme Court criminal trials.
The Wu Flu vax and all the push back around it and the bullshit mandates around it show it can work.
What the Right has to avoid is letting grifters, glowies, and racists hijack events, like we saw on Jan 6th.
There is a reason I never went to a Trump event, and it's cause I always felt like it was just asking for problems with grifters, glowies, and potential false flags. Plus, well, Trump's pettiness always was kinda off-putting and his need to brag felt tiresome sometimes.
This however I'm not sure if any right wing civil disobedience moved anything a single step forward to Fauci getting criminal trials. If that's the measure of success for right wing civil dissident, it was a complete failure.
I was saying the people who complain enough for the most part eventually get their way
Eh, not really? The South Complained a lot in the lead up to and post the Civil War. I'm not sure it did a whole lot for them. I'm not sure reducing will to power as complaining is particularly useful. Complaining generally only works to the degree it gives someone in power a mandate to do something they wanted to do anyways, as a general rule.
There were protests before brown v board. But that's not the real wrong part of your analysis. The real problem is you don't realize why they sent the 101st Airborne. It was a mirror of the civil war. The south defied the union authority (in this case a Supreme Court Ruling). People who cared about the federal government above all then forced Union policy on them. Did they also care about slavery/integration? A little. But mostly it was about federal supremacy to the union/federalists, while to secessionists/segregationists it wasn't about state power but keeping slavery/segregation.
Civil disobedience is what got those people who barely cared to enact the civil rights law a decade later. They did not have massive federal sway, just a won court case and the truth.
I'm not sure "The Federal government didn't really care about black people at all, it was just a cynical play to crush local oppositional power structures" is an argument for civil disobedience being a generally effective tool. And I thought I was getting cynical about the civil rights movement!
Even with the most good faith reading here, your still basically repeating my initial claim on what civil rights was "support what the government is already doing, but campaign for them to do it harder".
So, the equivalent to the MLK tactics in the covid situation is not the right wing resisting mandates, but Left wingers causing trouble to bring left wing power against right wing institutions resisting the mandates. To basically campaign that the government isn't mandating hard enough.
Which I mean, they did do constantly.