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we need better candidates running but the democrats and republicans have the country locked in and has everybody fooled
this election has turned into a sham involving two candidates bashing each other back and forth
pure election theater designed to stir up the rank and file voters
We certainly have a better candidate than Trump. We can work on finding a better one after we deal with Putin Jr.
that is what everybody said the last time and the time before that and the time before that
it has been afterwards for a hot minute and the corpse is in the process of putrefaction
Many people sat out the 2016 election…
Is that your suggestion, or do you have a better plan?
Trolls don’t really need a plan…
the workers of the US who the elites depend on would have to call out at least for day
if enough citizens revolted by not working just one day that would certainly start an upset
imagine if Biden or Trump's leash holders started hemorrhaging resources and their stocks plunged
Collective action can certainly be powerful. But your plan seems to have some pretty glaring holes. Strikes aren't protected in the US for non-work-related issues, are they? And you'd have to decide when the strike ends, i.e. when a "good" candidate is proposed, which everyone will have different opinions on. Seems to me the better move would be to be pushing for a rework of the voting system into one that allows voting for other parties without throwing away a vote.
There are over a hundred million working adults in the US, and all of them with their own opinions and needs. Many of them completely out of touch with the world outside of their bubble, and some who even approve of the current trajectory. The idea of organizing a generalized strike is a complete pipe dream. I'd love to see it, but we are nowhere even close to that. We must work with reasonable, attainable solutions.
To confirm and expand on what others are saying: a general strike is not protected, and any union that endorses one will lose their recognition. How can you get that many people to risk their jobs, with no organizing union that can even legally participate?
If you can get that many people that dedicated to your cause, it would be a whole lot easier to just get them to vote in a primary.