Chicago Mayor calls for General Strike

[SamuelTheThird]

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-general-strike_n_68f5168fe4b02184e56e6a11?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=us_main

[usonian]

1. The GOP has shut down the federal government. So is this a warm up of the government going on strike against itself?

No Kings shut down a few streets.

Mikey shut down the government.



And all for one guy, now deceased.

[MichMan]

2. City of Chicago employees should be the first to go

[halobeam]

3. I was looking for this coverage here... is there a reason we aren't doing this? Serious question, and then some.

Is it that there will be financial pain? I mean .. are we not in pain already? Do we not see more pain down the road, around the corner.. at our doorstep?

Is it that people will lose jobs? Are we secure in our jobs now? Are we that sure its not going to be lost, right down the road, around corner ... at our doorstep?

I want these corporations to be forced to the table to compromise. Wouldn't a general strike hit them where it hurts like nothing else?

I honestly do not understand how we can win this blasted fight without extraordinary action taking place. It's not violent, can't we take every measure before it becomes something I am sure most people do NOT want?

Organizers that can bring millions to the streets, can they not handle orchestrating this? What are the real reasons why this is not in the works?

We are being destroyed.
We are taxed (to death!) without representation, PLUS we have NO faith in our elections being fair (no matter who would win, the other side will not believe it), that is real as it gets.

I get we will not accept a freaking KING in this country.. our strength is our vote, as are our wallets. Why would this General Strike not be what we address and march for? Why would we not march for oversight of our elections???

We can march for no kings, for women's rights, for civil rights, for education, for healthcare until we are blue in the face - IF we don't have our vote counted, if both parties do not BELIEVE the result.. the fighting, the marching, will never end.

I want oversight for our elections, like the Carter Center gave to other countries who were on the brink.

Why are we fighting for everything else BEFORE this? Shouldn't this be the first thing we march for, petition for, fight for, with everything we have?

Why do I read the news before I try to go to sleep? Stupidity.



eta: 411 views on this thread and hardly a response. Did I miss a loaded thread elsewhere? Am I missing the obvious here? What gives?