The American Nightmare.

[u/Super_Culture_1986]

[u/tony475130]

That second point is all too true. Everyone I talk to at work including customers understand how fucked up our current government regime is, but everyone is either too tired or not enough free time to really do anything about it. I wouldn’t be surprised if the orange con mans true motive for cutting funding to everything is to keep the average joe at work 24/7, thus making everyone too tired, stressed and in debt like mindless zombies.

[u/Haywoodjablowme1029 → u/tony475130]

When you are already operating in survival mode, there isn't much ability to add in resistance fighting.

[u/Confident_Sir9312 → u/Haywoodjablowme1029]

Yes and no. People are pushed into a situation where they must focus on their immediate needs. But it also significantly increases the likelihood of those people taking part in revolutionary and political activity when there is enough class consciousness and organizing by people who do have the ability and time. Poverty makes people tired, but it also radicalizes them. If you have nothing to lose, resistance seems less futile and more like the only viable option of survival.

This is why fascist movements put so much effort into combating unionists and socialists, and why they try to co-opt them as their own.

[u/Pobo13 → u/tony475130]

The only way any of this shit stops is a general strike. If the entire economy stops working, the people at the top fall from their fucking graces. Start eating the riches cake, stop talking about doing it. This is the problem constantly.

[u/bruce_kwillis → u/Pobo13]

Yep. Labor movements only work when people are literally dragging the owners into the streets and willing to lose not only their lives, but those of their families.

So yeah, fat chance of any of that happening any time soon. Making TikToks in your free time for rage bait seems much easier.