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See I think that kind of defeatist logic is the trap - they flood the internet with pessimism and "there's no point in trying" and "there's no point in voting" to make sure YOU don't try. To make sure all you do is sit on your ass at home and complain on the internet.
The only way to change America is to remove billionaires from existing. As long as they hold all the power, nothing will get better significantly.
Alright so what are YOU going to do to help make that happen?
I never said any of that shit. The point is that, tactically speaking, we should be dealing with them as they are, and not giving them the benefit of the doubt, assuming they are on our side and operating in good faith, like the tired meme of Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie Brown.
The threat is existential, and there should be qualifying and disqualifying criteria, and that criteria should be set by US, not some party dignitaries, not some fucking “consultants” who are getting money from billionaire funded PAC’s and think tanks.
That's not defeatist.
Defeatism is deciding now, over 3 years before the next election and 15 months before midterms, that there's no way you get someone elected who actually represents you, so you should just suck it up and vote for Kodos.
Lol. "I'm not a Nazi! I blame all our problems on a secret mass conspiracy and infiltration of our society by a completely different race!"
Yeah yeah, tell us more about how the Judeo-Bolshivik's are harvesting adrenochrome under Comet Pizzaria. Sure love Nazi conspiracy theories in my "progressive" com