I first saw this on Facebook at the end of 2018 and was overly pessimistic about a repeat of the Yellow Vests happening here.
Over four years later, everything still applies. The French continue shutting shit down, Americans have gone back to being mostly apathetic over 2 1/2 years after George Floyd's death, more states have implemented anti-protest laws, and various interest groups continue to sponsor policies that harm the working class.
The Yellow Vests could never translate their street victories into electoral success. Some of them ran in the 2019 European elections under various parties and as independents but all them lost.
Also, the left was much more divided than the far right (multiple parties vs two on the other side) and the collapse of the People's Primary was proof of that.
My thoughts exactly, not to mention that same president got slapped.
The president over here gets an A from people who were supposed to be fighting for us. Sigh.
The same people who "resisted" Trump were nowhere to be found in the streets last year.
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If Americans limp on being apathetic then it will be a sad sign for the future. It is possible that the elites will give the public just enough to prevent a wide scale revolution.
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It would not surprise me if that's exactly what led to Bernie failing to emphasize that the pandemic was exactly justification for a lot of his causes and disgracefully dropping out on April 8.
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The abused spouse analogy has been used more in line with voters' continued reliance on backing the least objectionable candidate every election.
However, it does look as though many Americans are so used to disappointment and never having nice things. There has been no real effort to organize an India like general strike and Yellow Vests like movements have been few and far between.
If Americans continue fighting with each other, the ruling class would be really happy.
The zero sum mentality and individualism of these factions definitely contribute to the lack of unity when it comes to fighting the people who responsible for keeping us divided.
Farmers led a 250 million general strike in India on November 26. That is 75 percent of the U.S. population and 25 percent of the Indian population. Out of all the major western media, Germany’s DW was the only one to cover it in deep detail. There was virtually nonexistent coverage of the general strike here in this country with Democracy Now being a major outlier.
So far, the U.S. has merely flirted with a general strike twice—May 1 and August. The first one consisted of workers calling for better COVID-related protections and rent cancellations scattered nationwide. There was scant media attention. The second event was the NBA players in the wake of the Jacob Blake shooting. The playoffs were delayed for three days and the season was almost shut down. The players’ general strike only ended when ex-prez Obama made that midnight call to LeBron.
An effective general strike in the U.S. would require 70 million people participating and truckers refusing to drive. A list of demands to the power brokers would include a boycott of corporate America until the people with the real power realize that we need essentials that other industrialized countries take for granted.
The tweeter is Canadian with a French boyfriend and they understand what needs to happen in response to the pandemic-induced depression
