Hundreds of thousands of federal employees have been furloughed since the shutdown began on October 1, while others deemed essential – including some military personnel – have been required to turn up to work without receiving a paycheck.
“We kind of feel like we’re like a bargaining chip to an extent,” a long-serving US Air Force employee told AFP. “We’re not getting paid because people in D.C. who are getting paid can’t get on the same page.”
The uh, No Kings / 50-50-1 movement has successfully been organizing regular, coordinated, mass public demonstrations for months now, probably the largest in US History, but ok, I guess they don’t exist.
We don’t have 3 years.
We have less than 0.
I didn’t say anything about demonstrations. Demonstrations and general strikes are not the same thing. Organizing a protest is pretty easy, just tell people when and where to show up. Organizing a strike is substantially more complex, substantially more coordination and resources are required.
The US is a very large country with too many people who have no problem with this so organizing a nationwide general strike here would be extremely difficult.