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If you're going to start a war, don't lose. Things in the US are not to the point the people needed would defect to the strike.

It brings up the 1940s struggles of labor, industry, and .gov, and labor lost and had its back broken. Could labor outmaneuver industry and the state today if we ran it back?

by testing223211 hours ago|

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> Things in the US are not to the point the people needed would defect to the strike.

Not yet. But it’s coming.

by sanderjd6 hours ago|

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Ok but a general strike is both way less likely to be successfully organized and way less likely to change Trump's tariff policy than just electing 51 Democrats to the Senate in a couple months.

I do appreciate the concrete suggestion rather than the vague "do something", but another attribute of the civil rights movement was that their goals were modest and their "good trouble" targeted at achieving those goals were things they could actually organize. I'm sure John Lewis would have always loved there to be a general strike to achieve his desired policy, but he and his movement understood what they could and couldn't actually organize.

by testing223212 hours ago|

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No doubt it’s going to be difficult and require hard work to get rid of him.

But the internet makes organizing a general strike exponentially easier than it was in the past.

If you don’t like the general strike idea, what is your suggestion?

I think you’ll need to revisit this in a few months when he finds a way to make the election ineffective, and/or just keeps doing what he’s doing regardless.

And again in 2029 when he doesn’t leave the White House.