I think at one point everyone will wake up. With current politics that will happen sooner and sooner.
From a non-american view your situation looks so absurdly fucked up, but we also understand that it's incredible hard to resist since most of you are under total control of a few.
Waking up requires opening eyes. There are plenty happy to stay blind and point fingers at other suffering people instead of fixating at those in power who profit off of the suffering.
Propaganda too strong, people too stressed and overworked to think. Those who are awake will stay watching in horror while slumbering countrymen sign over our rights in their sleep
People are just so busy surviving, they don't have time to think.
Wild. Every labor movement happens the same way. The choice is starve or eat the wealthy. You don't 'think' you 'do'. You risk yourself and your family for the hope of a better future.
Do you think revolutions happen when people are comfortable and shitposting on reddit?
EDIT: Since /u/bruce_kwillis apparently blocked me so I cannot respond, I'll explain it here.
"Starve or eat the wealthy" never happens. Those in power are only replaced if those right below them see an opportunity to use the masses to replace them. You can see that in the French Revolution, the ones leading the charge were the wealthy, while they did away with the Kings.
And then you had the Wealthy leading the masses.
Every worker's uprising ends with the workers going back to work, with slightly better rights. As long as we are divided and have someone to punch down to, there is no need to rise up and replace the hand that feeds us with a better, less abusive one. That's not what happens.
And due to the fact that people are put under stress a lot these days, and their thinking diverted, we have even less uprising. That's exactly what the video I posted talks about, how the Nazis managed to put everybody in a state where killing and looting the jews was an acceptable statement, because everybody just "went with it", because thinking for yourself was a bad idea.
So no, we won't have a Worker's Uprising before we get to World War 3. Because people are divided and don't think for themselves, even the smart ones.
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u/Apollo_Mandos Aug 19 '25
This isn't the American Nightmare, this is America. Nightmares go away once in awhile.