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Dubbed ‘striketober’ by activists, a strike wave is occurring across the country, in various industries.
![A group of union workers from Kellogg's picket outside the cereal maker's headquarters as they remain on strike in Battle Creek, Michigan, US, October 21, 2021 [Emily Elconin/Reuters]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/RTXIVMX5.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
America is in a dark place. There are no simple ways forward or easy solutions that could bring people together.
Justice Stephen Breyer, the oldest serving US justice, is being urged to retire to make way for someone new.
![Members of the Supreme Court pose for a group photo at the Supreme Court in Washington, DC, Friday, April 23, 2021. Seated from left are Associate Justice Samuel Alito, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John Roberts, Associate Justice Stephen Breyer and Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, standing from left are Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Associate Justice Elena Kagan, Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch and Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett [Erin Schaff/The New York Times via AP, Pool]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/AP21113655420361.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
And it is down to the left to help the US shrug it off.
![President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma in June 2020 [File: Sue Ogrocki/AP Photo]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/AP20181778049608.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Once American and NATO troops leave, it is the only realistic course of action.
![Last month US President Joe Biden announced plans to withdraw all US troops from Afghanistan by September 11 [File: Andrew Renneisen/Getty Images]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/GettyImages-849100420.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
In the past, the rise of far-right ideology has surged ahead in Europe and the US in unison.
![Protesters supporting Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on January 6, 2021 [File: Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/1295889127.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Democrats can knock out Trump’s support base if they win over Republicans on immigration – it may take a deal to do it.
![In this January 20, 2021, file photo, President Joe Biden signs his first executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC. Six of Biden's 17 first-day executive orders dealt with immigration, such as halting work on a border wall in Mexico and lifting a travel ban on people from several predominantly Muslim countries [File: AP Photo/Evan Vucci]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/AP_21025799312888.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
No matter their shortcomings, former presidents have a way of still exerting influence. Will the same be true for Trump?
![Circa 1905: Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), the 26th president of the United States (1901-09) sitting at his desk working [File: Hulton Archive/Getty Images]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/teddy-roosevelt.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Joe Biden’s campaign has mirrored his character, showing the calm, compassionate leader Americans need in this moment.
![The Democratic United States presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden, arrives to speak at a rally with former President Barack Obama in Flint, Michigan on October 31 [File: AP Photo/Andrew Harnik]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/AP_20305683112580.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)