So my family already lives in poverty. My wife can’t work but we get no replacement for the loss over her paycheck even though she is in fact disabled. We have one wage and it isn’t all that and I’m working 40 and actually committing like 70 due to a long commute. We are making barely enough to eat, pay bills, pay rent. If I stop going to work for 30 days I’m going to be in danger of eviction process starting. In 90 I will be in danger of being actually out in the street. My health is poorish. Her’s is much worse. If we had to go live with the hobos her health and our marriage would absolutely go to shit sleeping on cardboard. Our life would probably never recover. It would make more sense for me to just commit suicide one of the normal ways.
I don’t say this because I think my life is so much harder than a lot of folks. Half the country is 90 days from tragedy. How can you actually expect people to actually do this? If your answer is a stupid quip like “put your shoes on” then you can expect you and the few hundred other folks who actually go through with this to just be fired out of hand whilst all the rest of us keep going to work so we don’t starve or have to sleep on cardboard.
So, no one can protest for better living conditions, because you can’t? Sorry about your situation, but that is exactly why we are organizing. If you are not able to participate, that’s fine. You may be resigned to defeatism, but please don’t discourage others from wanting to improve the conditions in which we all live. If you have a better plan to resist, I’m sure others would like to hear it.
50% of people can’t
25% could but wont because they are pro trump
20% could but view their role as vital so wont
4.99% could but don’t care or wont do it unless everyone else is
Your protest won’t work AT ALL.
You would need your state to forbid evictions like during covid and find a way to do community support enough to keep everyone in food, warmth, and medicine beforehand. You also need a plan to keep essential stuff like food flowing.
You need to figure out who in the Republican party is vulnerable in 2026 and work them to break their consensus.
If you want some sort of strike what you might think about in the shorter term how about austerity. No non-essential purchases. None at all Friday-Sunday. This will also cause businesses to cut hours which will further reduce consumption by those who aren’t interested in participating. You can amp it up by forcibly arranging sick outs for non essential workers carefully organizing it per company so they can’t just fire a few people. Ooops starting next month all assembly lines only work 60% of the time have fun trying to make quota.
This is probably sustainable for a long time especially if as can be easily predicted Trump responds by threatening, arresting, and punishing the people and it hurts the economy a lot. The more it hurts the easier it is to talk to Republicans in purple states/districts that are vulnerable.
Every journey begins with the first step, put your shoes on.
So my family already lives in poverty. My wife can’t work but we get no replacement for the loss over her paycheck even though she is in fact disabled. We have one wage and it isn’t all that and I’m working 40 and actually committing like 70 due to a long commute. We are making barely enough to eat, pay bills, pay rent. If I stop going to work for 30 days I’m going to be in danger of eviction process starting. In 90 I will be in danger of being actually out in the street. My health is poorish. Her’s is much worse. If we had to go live with the hobos her health and our marriage would absolutely go to shit sleeping on cardboard. Our life would probably never recover. It would make more sense for me to just commit suicide one of the normal ways.
I don’t say this because I think my life is so much harder than a lot of folks. Half the country is 90 days from tragedy. How can you actually expect people to actually do this? If your answer is a stupid quip like “put your shoes on” then you can expect you and the few hundred other folks who actually go through with this to just be fired out of hand whilst all the rest of us keep going to work so we don’t starve or have to sleep on cardboard.
So, no one can protest for better living conditions, because you can’t? Sorry about your situation, but that is exactly why we are organizing. If you are not able to participate, that’s fine. You may be resigned to defeatism, but please don’t discourage others from wanting to improve the conditions in which we all live. If you have a better plan to resist, I’m sure others would like to hear it.
50% of people can’t 25% could but wont because they are pro trump 20% could but view their role as vital so wont 4.99% could but don’t care or wont do it unless everyone else is
Your protest won’t work AT ALL.
You would need your state to forbid evictions like during covid and find a way to do community support enough to keep everyone in food, warmth, and medicine beforehand. You also need a plan to keep essential stuff like food flowing.
You need to figure out who in the Republican party is vulnerable in 2026 and work them to break their consensus.
If you want some sort of strike what you might think about in the shorter term how about austerity. No non-essential purchases. None at all Friday-Sunday. This will also cause businesses to cut hours which will further reduce consumption by those who aren’t interested in participating. You can amp it up by forcibly arranging sick outs for non essential workers carefully organizing it per company so they can’t just fire a few people. Ooops starting next month all assembly lines only work 60% of the time have fun trying to make quota.
This is probably sustainable for a long time especially if as can be easily predicted Trump responds by threatening, arresting, and punishing the people and it hurts the economy a lot. The more it hurts the easier it is to talk to Republicans in purple states/districts that are vulnerable.