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I don't think the USA has ever done a general strike. We can barely manage a boycott. I don't think there is anyone who could possibly lead it. No one here has that kind of respect and charisma. Maybe Obama could? But that's not our tradition to have former Presidents continue to be political leaders — just fund raisers.
Plus we have no protection from retaliation. General strike is just asking everyone to no show. That's a write up or a firing. Goodbye health insurance. Not even any unemployment because that would be getting fired for cause.
Which is a lot of defeatism, I know, but how the fuck do you do it??? .5% participation isn't going to get us anywhere.
That aside, yeah. Don't expect us to do any better than any other historical democracy that voted in an autocrat. Unless someone is going to do us like we did Venezuela, or somehow we manage to have actual, fair elections this year, we're the bad guys going forward. And even then we'll just clap ourselves on the back and sing how awesome our country and forefathers are because we survived someone like Trump and just keep on keeping on like we didn't narrowly avert the end of the nation.
And I guarantee we'll vote in another Republican administration within the next 15 years. We're all (the world) pretty fucked. Let's not do global superpowers any more.
Glad you're at least being honest about this shit. Too many times ppl call for a general strike without understanding what that actually means for the average person and their family.