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That's because France has a highly unionized workforce, and a population that will riot in the streets of the president so much as sneezes wrong.
It's not about principles or morals, it's that the material realities for labor in the US are very different. Not to mention, this general strike date was chosen in 2023.
Plus, it's not like nothing is happening. The lead up to the 2028 general strike necessarily involves a ton of organizing. I'm in an org that's currently seeding strategic industries in the area, in preparation for 2028.
Beyond labor, the No Kings protests were, numerically, some of the largest in US history. They didn't do much, on their own, but things like that are great for networking and pulling people into more granular organizing.
Not to mention that, beyond your average suburban liberal mom, peripheral parts of the American population (ie. Black, indigenous, immigrant, and queer communities) are very active, via various mutual aid campaigns, resistance to ICE etc.
Right, the citizens of France hold their elected officials accountable. Americans don't.
I agee, the "don't actually cause any trouble" protests, despite being some of the largest in US history, seem to have not slowed the decent into fascism at all. Maybe it was the whole "everyone clean up after yourselves and go back to work tomorrow like nothing happened so this can be easily ignored and forgotten" strategy.
If there's no resistance before 2028 then the US will have gone full Handmaid's Tale by then.