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Showing Original Post only (View all)Prediction: The May 1st "general strike" is going to be an enormous flop. [View all]
Yeah, yeah, I'm sure I'll get called a capitalist imperialist running dog lackey for this. But I'm right. There's a good reason that you can count the number of general strikes in the US in the last century on one hand and still have fingers left over--it's a practically nonexistant phenomenon, and pretending that you can summon one out of thin air would be funny if it weren't so egomaniacal.
And this is, pretty much, why I have so little tolerance for the fringe people, the third-partiers, the revolutionaries, the Naderites, etcetera, etcetera. If they had bothered to study history, they would know that what they want to try has been tried, and failed, and tried again, and failed again, ad nauseum. But every generation, somebody comes around with the idea that they really know better than every other person who's ever tried to make a difference in the history of the world.
There's a good reason that King said that the moral arc of the universe is long but it bends toward justice. It's because he knew that real, lasting change is accomplished the same way it always has been: with determination and a chisel, not outrage and a machete.