‘Grind the country to a halt’: Democrat urges national strike if Trump meddles in midterms
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/58550623
The Democratic senator Ruben Gallego has proposed that, should Donald Trump try to sabotage the midterm elections, Americans should respond with a general strike that would “grind the country to a halt”.
Earlier this week the US president called for Republicans to “take over” and “nationalise” voting in at least 15 unspecified locations, repeating his false claims that elections are plagued by widespread fraud.
On Thursday Gallego, a senator for Arizona and an Iraq war veteran, warned that Trump could seek to interfere with the November midterms that will determine control of Congress – and urged citizens to fight fire with fire.
“The Democratic senator Ruben Gallego has proposed that, should Donald Trump try to sabotage the midterm elections, Americans should respond with a general strike that would “grind the country to a halt”.”
Then that strike needs to start like right RIGHT now and not wait until elections when it’s ALRADY too damn late. I’m so sick of us waiting until Trump and his cronies throw the first blow. A lot of the shit he does could be averted if WE just do the thing instead of just making vague, general threats. His whole cabinet’s theme is “So, what are you going to do about it?” and time and time again Americans have proven that we will do nothing, and we don’t. This man hasn’t seen a consequence in his whole damn life, so he bets on that, plays our bluff and wins because he knows there will be no consequences, no one will do anything; just screaming into the void on social media.
Americans need to be PROACTIVE NOT REACTIVE!!