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Ain't no body on a high horse around here. I'm acknowledging that it's going to be a struggle. I'm also acknowledging that eventually the struggle will become a necessity, unless you're one of the few tenths of a percent of the population that's actually benefitting from this madness. Things are going to get worse regardless of if we struggle and fight or not, I'm just hoping for a "better" on the other side of that worse, and it won't happen until we're all in on the struggle.
And that's where the different kinds of protests come in. The single mother of 3 just trying to keep their kids fed? Sure they probably need to keep doing whatever they can to keep fresh food coming. But in the meantime, build a community. Know your neighbors. We are in this together. We fight together, we survive together, we die together. That single mother's of 3's struggles are not exclusively their own, they need the support of the people around them who can help. This shit is beyond individual family units and individual struggles at this point.
No one is equipped to do this alone. I don't mean overthrow the current status quo, I mean live. We're not designed to try to make all of our ends meet, especially not with the quality of life we've come to expect. We've gone from trusting our local community to supply and provide for us, people we know and are invested in ourselves, to putting all of that on the government and our employer, both of whom have no real motivation to help you any further than you are useful to them.
So what can a single mother of 3 do in lieu of a general strike? Build something. Build community. Build a garden. Provide shelter for those in your community who may need it. Find people you want to help because they want to help you. They're out there, outside of the internal issues. It's work, yes. It'll make the day to day a bit harder but... It's getting harder anyway.