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- usa@midwest.social
leaders with the most prominent Trump-resistance group organizing “No Kings” answered that complaint Saturday when Indivisible’s Ezra Levin took to the stage in Minneapolis and announced that a nationwide general strike is planned for May 1, modeled after a successful local action that shut down much of that region in January
Those only happen under more extreme circumstances. If people are actually worrying about their next meal, you can get a revolution from below. If there are huge numbers of military veterans, who are suddenly dismissed or unemployed after a war you get a chance as well. If the regime disintegrates internally because of ineptitude and failures, you have a chance it won’t fight back. If people are well organized in ways that can be leveraged, you have a chance as well.
A super individualist society divided into a million identities, lots of them primarily associated with buying stuff, have a hard time to coalesce, unite, and focus.
The American economy and political system still works far too well to be ripe for a „real revolution“.
No Kings has a bit of a lack of focus.
Protests are important because they show a large number of people are willing to stand up. We wouldn’t’ve gotten the protests if there weren’t enough people online encouraging them. And we won’t see further progress until more organization happens and something more dire happens.
But it’s all a part of the process. It’s all necessary.