| ▲ | testing22321 41 minutes ago | |
A general strike is often proposed. If even 50% of people just stopped going to work and spending money, things would change veeeery quickly. A few weeks of inconvenience for decades of a better future? Sign me up. | ||
| ▲ | sanderjd 32 minutes ago | parent [-] | |
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. | ||