Many people will be homeless with rising income inequality, the draining of social security, and fascist isolationist policy. We will all be dead when global warming goes unaddressed.
Rip the bandaid off. Act now, the longer you wait the worse the fallout will be.
Without organisation, without plans, political will, without communities, without people to implement all that, without grassroots structures, you can’t achieve shit even if you somehow convince the whole country to strike. And when you start building those, you discover that you already have pretty good mechanisms in place to achieve your political goals, you don’t even need strike.
You don’t have the bandaid that needs to be ripped, you’re having a hearth attack and you need serious medical attention.
If you cant orginize a strike you cant end 30+ years of political gridlock.
Id even argue you’d have much more success with a strike because of the stratification of the political system. Raw number weild more power with a strike compared to the fractured political power of the US government.
It’s the other way around actually, if we’re talking about general strike, one that really matters. A well put together union can organise a small strike that will achieve nothing and show nothing to nobody, but spend all their resources. But there is a reason, every serious talk about a big strike with people who know what they’re talking about starts with “well, we can think of something by 2029”
And how long has the DNC been trying to amass power?
All Im saying is if you have the ability to obtain the super majority required to expel trump you have more then enough poltical support to hold a strike that will accomplish more.
If you think either of these goals are achievable without a massive change in the way people are doing politics in 2025, youre crazy. If you weren’t crazy you’d be better off having the strike tomorrow because if you are thinking the wind will still be at your back after waiting two years, you just haven’t been paying attention.
I think you fundamentally don’t understand the nature of politics (and also strikes). DNC is one of the two major political parties. They are working in the democratic system, they don’t need to do strike, they will not benefit anything from it. The strike is one of the hundreds of ways people can influence politicians from outside the system. Until the next Trump term, you still have much easier to achieve ways to do that from inside the system, the particular way America does democracy is still in place.
Whatever revolutionary things you believe will help can’t appear from nothing, it takes decades to build enough union power to even achieve something, and you’re working basically from scratch. Meanwhile, democratic process that you’re discouraging people from, is right here, existing, working albeit poorly.
I think you dont fundamentally understand politics if you can look at the current political climate and think for a second the DNC can obtain a super majority without any major changes. What you keep ignoring, because youre not listening, is the same political will that you think could be used to turn the DNC into a party it has never been could be used to orginize a strike which would have a larger impact then trusting the democrats to upend the status quo. Which they have refused to consider for as long as I’ve been alive.
Many people would be homeless off of one missed paycheck.
Many people will be homeless with rising income inequality, the draining of social security, and fascist isolationist policy. We will all be dead when global warming goes unaddressed.
Rip the bandaid off. Act now, the longer you wait the worse the fallout will be.
Without organisation, without plans, political will, without communities, without people to implement all that, without grassroots structures, you can’t achieve shit even if you somehow convince the whole country to strike. And when you start building those, you discover that you already have pretty good mechanisms in place to achieve your political goals, you don’t even need strike.
You don’t have the bandaid that needs to be ripped, you’re having a hearth attack and you need serious medical attention.
If you cant orginize a strike you cant end 30+ years of political gridlock.
Id even argue you’d have much more success with a strike because of the stratification of the political system. Raw number weild more power with a strike compared to the fractured political power of the US government.
It’s the other way around actually, if we’re talking about general strike, one that really matters. A well put together union can organise a small strike that will achieve nothing and show nothing to nobody, but spend all their resources. But there is a reason, every serious talk about a big strike with people who know what they’re talking about starts with “well, we can think of something by 2029”
And how long has the DNC been trying to amass power?
All Im saying is if you have the ability to obtain the super majority required to expel trump you have more then enough poltical support to hold a strike that will accomplish more.
If you think either of these goals are achievable without a massive change in the way people are doing politics in 2025, youre crazy. If you weren’t crazy you’d be better off having the strike tomorrow because if you are thinking the wind will still be at your back after waiting two years, you just haven’t been paying attention.
I think you fundamentally don’t understand the nature of politics (and also strikes). DNC is one of the two major political parties. They are working in the democratic system, they don’t need to do strike, they will not benefit anything from it. The strike is one of the hundreds of ways people can influence politicians from outside the system. Until the next Trump term, you still have much easier to achieve ways to do that from inside the system, the particular way America does democracy is still in place.
Whatever revolutionary things you believe will help can’t appear from nothing, it takes decades to build enough union power to even achieve something, and you’re working basically from scratch. Meanwhile, democratic process that you’re discouraging people from, is right here, existing, working albeit poorly.
I think you dont fundamentally understand politics if you can look at the current political climate and think for a second the DNC can obtain a super majority without any major changes. What you keep ignoring, because youre not listening, is the same political will that you think could be used to turn the DNC into a party it has never been could be used to orginize a strike which would have a larger impact then trusting the democrats to upend the status quo. Which they have refused to consider for as long as I’ve been alive.