He does try to give a solution. It’s just that there is little to nothing the average viewer can do to make it happen. Sadly, that is just the way it is. Same with Bernie. We actually can’t make the solutions happen. But both are raising public awareness, which “can” impact policy. So I guess watching and listening is what we can do.
It’s just that there is little to nothing the average viewer can do to make it happen.
That’s simply not true though, there are tremendously powerful actions Bernie could be suggesting we do to fix this mess. The reason he doesn’t is that he seems unwilling to tell people to fully give up on electoral politics, and to advocate for direct action nearly exclusively (still worth throwing in a vote, but anything more than that like canvassing is pretty much a waste of time that could be directed elsewhere).
For example, he could be publicly calling for people to:
Prepare for and participate in a general strike, which would targets the establishment’s income streams, and is capable of bringing a fascist government to its knees if done on a large enough scale. Immigrant farm workers are already potentially going forward with this plan of action.
Contact a grassroots decentralized union like the IWW and attempt to unionize your workplace so that the general strike is even more effective (plus, ya know, better pay and working conditions as a bonus!)
Vaguely calling for the end of oligarchy instead of loudly calling for those very actionable steps is a massive missed opportunity for the resistance.
However, If we put in the work, we can resist this and we can win. Look at how effective the above mentioned methods were when used in Chile in 2019.. If we completely reject the political system and rebel on a mass scale, there is NOTHING they can do to stop us. But we won’t hear to do those things from establishment figures like Bernie or AoC, not until it’s too late, anyway.
I think he believes, like I do, that a general strike is not going to happen right now. If he were to call for it, and it fails to happen, he loses a lot of his influence. And most people aren’t willing to put thier livelihood on the line yet.
As for unions… they are already on the up swing. More and more places are unionizing. I don’t think that effort needs his help at the moment. But I could be wrong on that.
Union membership declined from 2023 to 2024 to under 10% of the US workforce, despite a high public approval.
I think Bernie explaining to people how unionizing could be weaponized against the regime would help, and particularly if he endorsed the IWW; a more militant union who are not corporate captured, nor only seek increased wages and are then become pacified as other more normal trade unions tend toward. The IWW is the only worker-led anti-capitalist union in the US.
He does try to give a solution. It’s just that there is little to nothing the average viewer can do to make it happen. Sadly, that is just the way it is. Same with Bernie. We actually can’t make the solutions happen. But both are raising public awareness, which “can” impact policy. So I guess watching and listening is what we can do.
…and if nothing else, documenting what is being done, if it will ever come to a point where it can be turned around.
There’s a reason the Nazis paved over and planted fucking trees on as many concentration camps they possibly could before they got overrun.
Yeah I love it when he provides solutions.
That’s simply not true though, there are tremendously powerful actions Bernie could be suggesting we do to fix this mess. The reason he doesn’t is that he seems unwilling to tell people to fully give up on electoral politics, and to advocate for direct action nearly exclusively (still worth throwing in a vote, but anything more than that like canvassing is pretty much a waste of time that could be directed elsewhere).
For example, he could be publicly calling for people to:
Vaguely calling for the end of oligarchy instead of loudly calling for those very actionable steps is a massive missed opportunity for the resistance.
However, If we put in the work, we can resist this and we can win. Look at how effective the above mentioned methods were when used in Chile in 2019.. If we completely reject the political system and rebel on a mass scale, there is NOTHING they can do to stop us. But we won’t hear to do those things from establishment figures like Bernie or AoC, not until it’s too late, anyway.
I think he believes, like I do, that a general strike is not going to happen right now. If he were to call for it, and it fails to happen, he loses a lot of his influence. And most people aren’t willing to put thier livelihood on the line yet. As for unions… they are already on the up swing. More and more places are unionizing. I don’t think that effort needs his help at the moment. But I could be wrong on that.
Union membership declined from 2023 to 2024 to under 10% of the US workforce, despite a high public approval.
I think Bernie explaining to people how unionizing could be weaponized against the regime would help, and particularly if he endorsed the IWW; a more militant union who are not corporate captured, nor only seek increased wages and are then become pacified as other more normal trade unions tend toward. The IWW is the only worker-led anti-capitalist union in the US.
Hm, so why do you think he didn’t?
I would love to see a politician as prominent as Bernie openly call for that. But he’d get assassinated so fast…