Citizen Strike?

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Originally Posted by Irving

Wouldn't accomplish anything. Same as the complete failure of Occupy Wallstreet. No direction, no goals, no uniformity of the participants.

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Originally Posted by buffalobo

I think some pretty serious disruptions could garner a great deal of attention.

Suppose ten thousand dairies across U.S. decided to dump 3 or even 5 days of production down the drain instead of deliver to the store?

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Originally Posted by Great-Kazoo

Serious disruptions? You can't get 100 gun owners in a room to agree. Let alone ten thousand, truckers. Hell i'd wager a good portion of them voted blue.

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"We the People" would have to agree on something which is highly unlikely to happen.
It would be pretty easy to cause serious disruptions in many metropolitan areas via many methods. You don't need truckers to block major roads just some disabled vehicles or a slow moving caravan at peak times across all lanes of traffic.
Covids caused serious disruptions yet where are the changes? Choked ports, ship sideways in a major shipping lane (Suez), many companies working at reduced capacity don't seem to have produced much change in the status quo.

Also, how long before the leader and movement are labeled "domestic terrorists" and the mass media does what-it-is-they-do, spin, and voila.

Remember when everyone declared that yes, they were in fact an Infidel? The Domestic Terrorist name has now been applied to Parents protesting CRT, Southwest Flight Crews, Gun owners, Republicants, Libertarians, Unannounced Jan 6th Capitol Visitors, Vaccine and Mask resistors/protesters, and more than I care to research and find in addition.

Imagine if every other vehicle on the road had a: Unrepentant Domestic Terrorist bumper sticker on the back next to their completely regular bumper stickers?

The last thing we need are more bumper sticker platitudes.

It doesn't take a huge number of people to change things. If we've learned anything over the last two years is that the majority of the American people truly are sheep. That word is way over used but it's true. They will bow down to whoever puts the most pressure on them. Doesn't need to be an army.

Works for lefties and can work for righties too if they tried. Some red governors are putting pressure back on the commies. We don't need an army, we just need a handful of brave conservatives. Both leaders and citizens putting pressure on their local commie school boards, health directors, county commissioners, etc.

I don?t think it would take a week for people to struggle if a fair portion of the workforce all took time off at once.

I figure if as little as twenty percent of the people that work around the clock to keep natural gas, electricity, cell phones and internet up and running took two or three days off all at the same time then everyone else would be sitting home in the dark, in the cold, with no television, phone service, or internet pretty quick and would absolutely lose their minds.

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Originally Posted by ray1970

I don?t think it would take a week for people to struggle if a fair portion of the workforce all took time off at once.

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I'd tend to agree but would love to see two weeks for it to really sink in. Americans are very comfortable, things get rough and you stay home, order food and supplies, while Amazon does the rest. ::yawn::

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Originally Posted by ray1970

I don?t think it would take a week for people to struggle if a fair portion of the workforce all took time off at once.

I figure if as little as twenty percent of the people that work around the clock to keep natural gas, electricity, cell phones and internet up and running took two or three days off all at the same time then everyone else would be sitting home in the dark, in the cold, with no television, phone service, or internet pretty quick and would absolutely lose their minds.

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And no one would blame the government. They would blame all those blue collar Manchurian Candidates that Russia installed through Trump.

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Originally Posted by ray1970

I don?t think it would take a week for people to struggle if a fair portion of the workforce all took time off at once.

I figure if as little as twenty percent of the people that work around the clock to keep natural gas, electricity, cell phones and internet up and running took two or three days off all at the same time then everyone else would be sitting home in the dark, in the cold, with no television, phone service, or internet pretty quick and would absolutely lose their minds.

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I'm prepared to do without luxuries like food and water. I just need the necessities... Coffee and broadband and I can survive just fine.

Given the number of "help wanted" signs and businesses having to close or restrict hours because of insufficient staffing, I'd say a large portion of our citizenry is "on strike" right now.

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Originally Posted by Martinjmpr

Given the number of "help wanted" signs and businesses having to close or restrict hours because of insufficient staffing, I'd say a large portion of our citizenry is "on strike" right now.

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Yup. 4.3M Americans QUIT their jobs in August.