"Not the right tool for the job, even if we had it, and we don't"

In this ad hominem article about Chris Hedges, you write :

"To succeed, a strike must have one concrete, simple, and achievable goal."
The sentence that follows is you imposing one particular goal, which may be the most complex and difficult to achieve goal of all possible goals :
"Reformatting the entire political system"
Then you impose the time scale of the goal: "is a long and complex process... - years"

Then you impose a binary alternative :
"If you instead call a strike with the simple goal of getting a specific leader in power, in hope they would then complete that overhaul, all you get in the end, even if you succeed, is a new dictator."
In this only alternative, you crystallize as facts that : a leader is needed, that this leader can only be another dictator, and maybe by extension that any president of the USA is to be considered a dictator.

It could be also be considered that authoritarianism cannot be a democratic option ever, voted or not. Then that when it manifests so blatantly, it opens every right to overthrow it by law or even by force if necessary. If institution are insufficient, in this point of view, a direct assassination could even be considered allowed and protected by the constitution, and the perpetrator could be granted a pardon and a statue. The country has a lot of highly trained professionals for this job that wouldn't even need a pardon, but will still appreciate the honor of a cool statue.

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"There’s no force in United States that can organize and sustain a general strike."
Yes there is. The working and the non-working class eager to cooperate to end this deadly humiliation. Have you seen the mobilization potential ? The laws penalizing it are fundamentally unamerican and should be immediately discarded as such thanks to this movement.

A general strike is powerful, the short terms effects are real, ubiquitous, immediate, on a symbolic and material level as well. The demand, whatever it is, even if it is putting in power some democrat leader as you advocate, ends to be satisfied extremely quickly (A 'radical' democrat like AOC with older more experienced tacticians could fit for the transition). Even the coercion apparatus can be neutralized by mere ideas, or sabotage or whatever is needed, but expect to have unexpected, skilled and powerful allies in all this (at an intellectual and operational level).

Talking about your article's target :
"He first gained respect of Occupy Wall Street, and then completely demoralized it by posting a vicious attack on Black Bloc tactics that has split the movement and made it lose momentum and public support."

Everything indicates that what you are doing a comparable mistake here, for the sake of contradicting a clown from A to Z. Please consider that in this external perspective at least for a moment ?

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And now the question :
What is the right tool for the job ?

Edit: It's not your direct intentions that i described about your paragraphs, but the effects these formulations can have on a receiver.

[Photo of Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk et al looking uncomfortable at Trump's inauguation.]

This image, some of you in this room might know these people. I call it tech bros in hostage situations. It's a message to you. This is Putin's playbook. He allows a business elite to make untold riches in exchange for absolute loyalty.

Some people are calling this oligarchy, but it's actually bigger than that. These are global platforms. It's broligarchy.

There is an alignment of interests that runs through Silicon Valley to what is now a coming autocracy. It's a type of power that the world has never seen before.

Follow the data. It's always the data. It's the crack cocaine of Silicon Valley. You know, the first thing that Elon Musk did was to send his cyber troops into the US Treasury to get access to the data. That is not a coincidence. It's a hack. That data is now feeding AIs that are choosing who to sack and who to replace - Sorry -- eliminate fraud and waste.

When we broke the Cambridge Analytica story about the harvesting of 87 million people’s Facebook data, people freaked out, rightly. That is chicken feed compared to this. But it is the blueprint. It's always the data. Which is why it's so important that you start thinking about your private life. The broligarchy doesn't want you to have one.

This is the old headquarters of the East German secret police. They kept detailed files on almost one in three of their citizens. That is nothing compared to what Google has on every single one of us, and hundreds of other companies.

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