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As you look outside in the US on the first Monday after a holiday and see the countless millions of people driving to work, going grocery shopping, dropping off and picking up their kids, you need to ask yourself if you really think the bulk of the money-spending, child-feeding, bill-paying population of the US is ready to sacrifice weeks of services and food for an outcome that they don't actually want or understand.
You know it's not going to happen, but the next best thing is political organizing and getting social and making people more aware in REAL LIFE about issues in their community that impact them, and the people who represent them. Volunteer to get petitions, sign up for Progressive Victory, use that energy to help the systems already working to mitigate or even reverse damage being done to our nation.
We can still turn this boat around with traditional politics, but it takes actual humans getting involved with other actual humans. Since capital has successfully turned most of our socialization muscles to mush, it will be uncomfortable at first, but far easier to pull off than trying to get several hundred million comfortable people to break their own system.
They've cultivated this culture where nobody can afford to do any kind of direct action like a general strike. There's a reason why nearly everyone in America works paycheck to paycheck and has essentially zero savings.
But that's exactly the point, isn't it? If people are struggling to get by and have no time for anything outside of work, sounds like ripe grounds of radicalization if only someone else were to reach out. If the system is directly failing someone, it wouldn't take much to energize them to join a movement to enact change.
Yeah, it just takes giving up your only source of income and hoping your children don't get too hungry
Can't help but notice I didn't say anything about encouraging someone to leave their job. This is a pretty defeatist attitude when I was pointing out literally the opposite in that the system is obviously failing someone and they would be more receptive to movements of change. Joining a movement doesn't require or necessitate leaving a job. Let's not be silly doomers.
How does a person with 2+ jobs, kids, and zero savings survive a strike
By joining the movement? Organizing general strikes like these usually have some form of support for those who need it. Do you think these organizations don't consider these things?
The movement you're describing does not exist in the US
Now you're just talking out of your ass, because that's just factually incorrect. There are plenty of organizations that provide all kinds of support for protestors, organizers, and workers on strike as needed. These are big, well-funded organizations that regularly provide support in the form of bailouts, food assistance, security, legal assistance, first aid, medical supplies, organizational assistance, etc. There are an overwhelming number of these organizations that I made a point to not name any because you'll find so fucking many just by googling whatever political cause you can think of. While I could name them myself, I think it's more important for you to experience how easy it is to find any of these organizations and get into contact with them. This is why people on lemmy really need to just go the fuck outside instead of lamenting on the fediverse about how no one in the US is doing anything about fascism or whatever, because, HOLY SHIT, there are so fucking many people doing something about it right the fuck now.