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I think relatively speaking, it is true. However, the reason we got trump 2 is they didn't do their job the first time. The reason we got trump 1 is because they didn't do it of Nixon.
Trump in 2028 "No 'body' can run for a third term, but I've got a shiny new robot body, arrrrooooo!"
Futurama intensifies.
I know it might not be much but I will be sending letters to all my reps after the mid terms to encourage them to go on full offense. I will also be encouraging everyone I know to do the same.
No more compromise, no more working across the aisle. We need to see accountability before we can try to heal fucking anything. The accountability is the medicine.
I hope everyone stops acting negative and starts pushing hard for what’s right. That means all of us in the US write, protest, and make sure those in congress know how people feel.
People on congress will listen if people are angry enough, but if people give up ahead of time with cynicism then we definitely lose.
It’s better to fight and lose than never to fight at all, every time, even if it seems hopeless.
You could take the bank accounts of every one of your reps constituents and it still wouldnt override the buying power one billionaire has over them.
More cynicism, not helpful.
There’s an order of operations to democratic society:
This fall we do 1, if it fails meaning dems don’t actually win because of fraud then we go to 3. If 1 fails because dems actually lose then this is the will of the country and you try to survive it as best you can.
If 1 passes with dems winning then we go to 2.
If 2 fails we go to 3.
You can’t skip 2, and it is meaningful if a lot of people indicate they will go to 3 if 2 doesn’t work.
Democracy hasn’t failed until you have to get to 3 and everything happening right now is a consequence of 1 going wrong previously so we have to fix it in this order.
Billionaires have blood inside them, there are WAY more of us than them, we just have to make them afraid and the implied threat in 1 and 2 is we end in number 3.
History is full of cases where the people rose up and hung the elites. Elites know this history they just always do their best to try to get the people to fight amongst themselves.
Don’t take the bait, don’t become a cynic, don’t give up because democracy dies in darkness.
You think thing would be the same if Republicans didn't control every aspect of the federal government?
I didn't say that. Just that they don't fix the damage the republicans do. They're the ratchet. Republicans fuck everything up. Dems keep things mostly the way they are.
Then you're almost definitely talking about neoliberals, who have controlled the party in a year and a half
Ok.
This is a perfect response to weird politicobabble
Non-voters are the ratchet.
They go around pretending to be progressive and anti neo-liberal and just defends democrats on the genocide and sneaks in wild takes to pull people back into supporting the Democratic party.