I’m from Canada and I find it very confusing that US federal workers haven’t gone on strike with all the BS being pulled by DOGE. I feel pretty confident that if the same thing was done in Canada with random mass layoffs of critical services and hostile takeovers of critical infrastructure, that there would be a general strike of federal employees. Why has there been no labour action in the states?
Worker solidarity is pretty much non-existent in the US. The YouTube channel William Spaniel talks more about the game theory behind this. Too few in the fed want to stick their necks out. Really we need a general strike, but too few will show up. This makes it trivial to crush the dissent. US culture has huge influence from Libertarian politics and Ayn Rand’s Objectivity; this is just an example of why those are ultimately bad for any society.