Would a national general strike bring the republican controlled government to its senses on tRump

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20. To climb that mountain first you're going to have to have repression......

and attacks on the rest of us on a MUCH wider scale. That will dialectically increase the resistance. And that's coming. Right now, the only ones whose oxen have been gored are the ones that are more marginalized, immigrants mostly. The repeal of Obama's health insurance reform is the start to widening out the attacks. Social security and Medicare "reforms" will piss enough people off to do it. Maybe. And then there's the next recession within a couple of years. When they bail out the banks again, there'll be a LOT of pissed off people. IOW, there's enough anger that all it will take is a spark.

Then you have to have a national organizational framework. The Democratic Party won't do it because their corporate donors will be affected too, so that leaves the unions, who are NOTOROUS for not wanting to rock the boat. But they are SLOOOOWLY becoming more militant, so it's possible that they could be brought on board to organize the event IF enough of their member pressure the bureaucracy into thinking they HAVE to do something. If the unions get on board and call for a day of strikes and rallies on a particular day, then that WILL bring on board all of these other folks who are OK with the idea, just don't want to do anything by themselves.

And that's what would go into organizing a one-day event. It's not easy, but it could be done. Organizing an indefinite GS would be much harder.

We're not there yet, but I see no stopping the attacks on the rest of us, short of this most militant of tactic.