(#6150) We need a national work stoppage day!

      We the democratic party have some momentum on our side. But to keep it we must ratchet up the pressure on the republican party. The best way to do that is to stop working for at minimum one day. Whatever the excuse given we must find a way to align all of us to a beginning and then follow through. I know even with only my necessary part time job I will participate. Because some things are greater than our current economic struggles. Saving our democracy is one of those greater things. The only pressure republicans and their wealthy donors understand is money. If we start to deprive them of money they will understand our ability to effect them directly.
     Trying to appeal to their conscience is worthless. They publicly act contrite and sympathetic but then go back behind closed doors and laugh at us. The depth of their lack of care is bottomless, unless it hits them in the pocketbook. Then they start to fear for their own ability to withstand our coordinated stoppages. I get that a work stoppage is a major headache for many of us and some will be harmed by it but the greater harm is letting the republican party and their wealthy donors continue to unsettle and destroy our democratic institutions and rights. We have reached that tipping point where our own well being is not a choice anymore. We are now at the point where the worst of what our American society can become is now more likely than not.
     Which is why we absolutely need to ramp up our voices and utility. If we don't we will soon wish we had because the rights and freedoms we still have today will be quickly removed with no recourse to their reversal. I am not embellishing here. Just look around you with all the threats from trump and the defiance of court orders. He is clearly moving into a new stage with his ice goons to quell free speech and due process. If we don't object to his strategy to bully all of us he will be even more encouraged to take from us our democracy and install himself and others who lick his boots as a never ending line of tyrannical leaders with no more democratic values to save all of us.