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What's preventing a General Strike in the United States?
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Also, the average American barely knowing what a union is, much less being a member of one.
And too many of the ones who do and are have accepted the paradigm of unions as a consumer service, rather than a place for rank-and-file organization. Union dues for collaborator leadership makes a union into a sort of absurdly cheap, shitty lawyer with whom you get what you're paying for, when it's not actively betraying you.
Americans have had every participatory inclination beaten out of them (metaphorically speaking). Their political parties have no participation beyond asking for money and their unions are the same. They've been fed a steady drip of 24/7 news designed to keep them afraid of everyone they don't already know, and that's by design. Things are going to have to get a lot worse for the average American before they'll be willing to organize in any meaningful way. I hope this changes, don't get me wrong, but I expect that it'll have to get a lot worse before it gets better.
Don't forget that unions and strikes are unamerikkkan commie inventions that takes away our freedom.