It’s easy to think protests don’t matter.
They do. Just not directly.
8 million people in the streets aren’t going to make literal traitors admit they were wrong and willingly leave their positions.
But 8 million people in the streets sends a signal to everyone else that the opinions they already hold about this treasonous government are valid and that they are not alone.
It’s a snowball effect. It’ll get bigger, if we’re persistent. Gotta keep the momentum building.
Yeah, but Americans are awful at voting. Maybe we’ll be better at allowing things to get so awful that we turn to mass protests and violence.
I didn’t wake up today with the intention of being a downer, but the odds of a general strike happening are vanishingly small.
Just not gonna happen.
Americans simply don’t have that kind of solidarity or the breathing room to go without a paycheck or lose their jobs.
It’s the fastest and least violent way to bring this treasonous government to its knees, but I don’t see it happening. I’m not even aware of any historical examples of a general strike on a large scale anywhere.
Probably not. I work a critical local government job. Didn’t get to work from home during COVID either.
A general strike is just not really a feasible thing. Even in a country where most people weren’t living paycheck to paycheck, you’d still have to worry about getting fired as retribution for taking part. And savings don’t last long.
Again, I don’t know of any instance of a general strike in history. For a reason.