First Principle

 Eric Loomis on Twitter:

Sometimes people ask me, "How do we start a general strike?" My answer is always, talk to your coworkers and family members who you probably don't like that much, because they are the ones who have to be on board with this.

Yep.  It's way different from the kind of democracy which involves pulling a lever.  To merely chose between the Red and Blue teams of the CIA Establishment, which is nonetheless a very useful thing to do, we merely need line up those who already support the Blue side and get them to vote.

But to have the overwhelming majority and unity needed for radical change, it goes beyond that.  And we are nowhere close.

Loomis adds:

In truth, the general strike fantasy is an anti-politics that erases the hard realities of organizing and dealing with people in favor of a romanticized vision of revolutionary activism that erases the politics of real life humans with real life contradictions and personalities.