This is why my advice to everyone who is like "But what should I actually DO!’ is “get to know your neighbors.” Community together strong
Oh I see you don’t spend time on NextDoor.
get to know your neighbors AND learn how to trust and be trusted.
nearly a century of coordinated, targeted anti-union operations by corporations and the federal government will do that.
More than a century honestly, that shit goes as far back as the 1800s
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.
No class consciousness, and americans are cowards. Next question
reductive and unhelpful. next dumbass
unhelpful
Americans when they can’t even help themselves and expect everything to be handed to them because “oh noooo what about my paycheck!?”
Like the rest of us didn’t have to fight through much worse conditions to get even half a crumb
The american people are cowards.
The American system rewards cowardice
It also makes bravery expensive (not that cowardice isn’t expensive in the long run)
Oh yeah? Where are you at in your worker’s paradise praytell?
What is this aggressive response?
It was clearly an observation, not an insult - there was no need to try start arguments off it.
I trust that you’re an American.
So am I.
We are in fact cowards
Isn’t that the entire point? lol
Imagine this conversation in 18th century France.
Peasant: Should we do a revolt?
Other peasant: Are you kidding? I’m down to my last loaf of bread over here, no way!
Americans love making excuses because working class solidarity is pretty much impossible for them to even imagine. It’s a settler colonial state to it’s very roots.
It’s the same reason you won’t see socialist leanings in Israel. At best it’ll be fascism pretending to be socialism. Remember ACP?
Lack of worker solidarity. We’re too atomized and stressed to support each other through a GS. Hopefully that is beginning to change. I just hope its not too late.
