I suppose you are right. The Trump administration would not give a shit, and it certainly wouldn’t affect them.
But it would cause a stir. If Walmart and Kroger miss a week of sales, that may get the attention of some Trump supporters. The rich ones.
What can we do? I bought a ‘Same Shit, Different Hat’ sweat shirt. I’m probably just enriching someone in China.
Voting doesn’t seem to help, and the GOP is going to make sure that it never helps.
I just see it as another way to protest. And we should all be ready to be able to spend a week at home.
45/47 and his cronies might well represent the single greatest threat to the US in a century. But you really want to shift the blame for all domestic sins and afflictions onto some external target, any external target, don’t you?
That USD20 you shelled out as a micro-protest? Most of that money went into a USA pocket, quite possibly the US Federal coffers.
Huh? Boy, did you miss read me. I’m not blaming ANYBODY but US. The USA.
you think protesting big businesses, over the Thanksgiving weekend, is, in some undefined way, going to affect Trump? Some kind of fuzzy, muddled, anti-capitalist protest is going to be held against Trump by his backers? That is delusional. If you want to oppose Trump, why not protest his actions directly (ICE, etc.)
That is best of course. But a country ‘BlackOut’ may get the attention of some folks. Rich folks that support Trump.
I donno, but we must do something. I’m not ready to walk the streets with a rifle.
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is now.
–Chinese proverb
fair enough, but I’m also not ready to stop working for a week and get fired from my job either.
Ok, I’m in a different spot in my life. Working from home. Gonna retire in a month. I certainly could stay off the streets/stores for a week. Don’t buy a thing is what I see this as, more than not working.
I’m sure that’s harder or impossible for some.
Love it David.
It would cause a stir if it actually happened. What I’m telling you is that it wouldn’t happen. This still-fragile alliance that’s building is nowhere near at that point now; and many in it at least to the point of honking approval would only decide that we’re a batch of fools who don’t understand their lives and don’t give a shit about Aunt Martha, or about them either.
That’s a hell of a lot easier for some people than for others.
You want to go tell that to all the people who would lose their jobs, and/or who can’t afford to lose a week’s pay or they’ll be unable to pay the rent and will be out on the street, along with their kids and Aunt Martha?
Go to your jobs. Just don’t buy a thing. That’s easy.
Thanksgiving is the only major holiday I get to spend with my cousins. I don’t spend much except for travel expenses. If we do go out on the weekend it is to an event. Sometimes I like to go to the local thrift stores.
I have never been one to buy much of anything anyhow and even less this year since all the government nonsense started.
But I will be celebrating Thanksgiving.
So spend it with your cousins.
I don’t do Thanksgiving anymore. Whatever.
If we were to be realistic - getting back to the OP - what can realistically be done to oppose Trump? I don’t think for one moment that enough Americans are going to participate in a Thanksgiving no-shopping boycott to make it have any impact or even be noticed.
Not if you have to take public transport. Not if you have to pay whoever’s taking care of the kids. And for some people not buying food for a week means nothing to eat. Not everyone can afford the food and storage space to stock up.
This.
A one-day strike, not on a major holiday, might get enough people to accomplish something. And it might be possible to work up from there — if done with clear recognition that no, it’s not easy for quite a lot of people, and not possible for all.
The bus strikes for civil rights, which worked, included large efforts to help people get where they needed to go by other means.
I’m truly sorry if I upset you. But thought that most people could buy food for one week.
Well at least for those that buy what food they eat.
Is it realistic to have a general strike when less than 10% of workers in the US belong to a union?
You can have a strike without a union. Granted, it would be easier with unions — if the unions will join it instead of arguing against it.
Unions haven’t really had the power to change business much in the last fifty years; changing a government is way out of their weight class. If an anti-Trump coalition had the numbers to carry off a national strike, Trump would never have been elected in the first place.