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"Taking back" the Amerikkkan flag

Literally my first protest experience was saying this sometime around 2008 and getting clowned on by a communist in Lafayette Square.

She's talking about forming an "underground" that has a goofy name like the "Sparrows" or something [...] She has an alt-constitution written in a mole skin book that she showed me and I had to hold back my laughter at how badly it was written.

This one has potential. This is someone who knows the system is completely doomed unless fundamental reforms are made. "The Constitution needs to be replaced" is a pretty advanced position for a liberal, but it is true. The obscene corporate money in elections, the monopolization of communications platforms, the gerrymandering, the voter suppression, the impunity of cops, the Senate, the Supreme Court. These are each, individually, terminal problems for liberal democracy, which are allowed to metastasize because the constitution provides no mechanism to do anything about them. None of these problems will be solved. They will never even be a campaign issue. I have never seen the Democrats campaign on passing a constitutional amendment in my entire life. It is not something which even exists in their dreams, where "progressives" hold a super-majority in the federal government (and in reality, the last time this happened all we got out of it was "Romneycare"). Shit will just continue to get worse while former federal prosecutors record podcasts talking about how liberal democracy is such a precious thing and we must vooot to protect it.

Let her cook. I think she will put the pieces together eventually.