Why a European/Belgium style strike will not happen in the U.S.
My wife and I had been talking about how Belgium stage a complete one day shut down of the country to get a message across to their government.
My wife said: The reason why this will never work here isn't so much that our two party system is so "polarized" BUT that "polarization has basically taught us to hate one another and not completely trust one another. We are taught stereotypes of each party supporters --and if they live who up to that stereotype in our collective minds or because it was ingrained into us by two party system; the truth is we no longer see each other as fellow citizen who in general wants to do go for all. We see each other as ruining our country and the other side must stop it.
The true enemy of our country is the 1% and Corporations. But you hear your republican relatives complaining about how 5th street needs to be re-paved by the city. You hear your Liberal relatives saying that this "pork spending" is out of control and the government needs to stop outrageous spending.
The problem is we-our fellow citizens need to stop seeing each other as evil and say to one another. "You know that bridge that spans between Ohio and West Virginia needs repair before it collapses and kills whoever is on it at the time."
We need to go back to 5th grade civics class and remember why taxes are collected and what our government was suppose to do for the citizens.
The problem is I don't think we can do that. We right now do not possess the skills ( and some of us ) the knowledge, or the ability to look past the divide.
When we have Omnibuses bills being slammed through that give so much to so few people/corporations and the average citizen is back to the days when you could be fired for basically thinking differently from your employer OR had a bad day and speak in a manor that would "Disrespect" the store/company we we have our fellow citizens having to work 2 or 3 jobs just to get a enough to have the bare min to support themselves we will never see ourselves as U.S. citizens we will always see ourselves as Democrats and republicans and well those of us who do not view ourselves as either one of those parts as nuts, this will never happen.
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