I feel like i've been seeing a torrent of photos depicting signs announcing a stores entire staff quitting in protest of their shitty working conditions. Nobody seems to be talking about it but are Americans starting to experience class consciousness?
I want to do the dumb guy's version of Hegel's dialectic and synthesize all these theses into one new antithesis:
some workers have been radicalized;
many have not been radicalized because of cultural hegemony etc.:
liberals know something is wrong but believe that Lord Biden will save them and everything will soon be fine (spoiler: we have a 50-50 chance of an absolute lunatic beating him or Harris in 2024 assuming the USA still exists at that time);
fascists are still licking their wounds from their electoral defeat but will start flexing their muscles again when the midterm campaign season starts up. They also have a 50-50 chance at least of retaking congress in a year and a half.
Speaking from personal experience, I overheard some workers at the local grocery store chain a few days ago talking about how local restaurants were desperate for workers. I got very close to telling them that it was time to unionize since they have their bosses by the balls, but I chickened out because I'm a :LIB:
I did talk to a neighbor a few days ago who basically confirmed what I just wrote in the previous paragraph. He has to deal with one of the world's shittiest landlords, so I made sure to talk a lot about unionizing with him. He was open to the idea but did not fully commit.
News stories about "no one want to work" are everywhere and also all over Facebook. It really is just a ploy to cancel unemployment benefits. If Biden does this, and if they also start getting rid of eviction moratoriums (which has already occurred on the federal level), we might be lucky enough to re-enter a nationwide cool zone, although obviously the price is an untold amount of misery for a truly vast number of people.