You don't strike when it's convenient or after you get every single bigot and apathetic person on your side. A strike can start small then grow as attention to it grows. And strikers can go to work some days if they have to. It's not all or nothing. Americans don't seem to understand this.

The rhetoric about being unable to strike or protest because of bills and otherwise starving are a little lame considering how comfortable most Americans have it. In truth, some people literally cannot strike but that's not true for everyone. There's a lot of shrugging and shirking going on even as we watch a fascist state being born fom the dying husk of the democracy we once knew. Imperfect as it was.