the following is not whataboutism. it is a request that people familiar with the America's current issues to think deeply about what the future holds

look at a map of russian ethnic populations and tell me what you see

i see the american project of manifest destiny played out on the eurasian continent

read about russian project and tell me what you find

i hear the core justifications i heard all my life for american exceptionalism, a doctrine that an increasing, rather than decreasing, number of americans believe in even as the 47th president demonstrates in no uncertain terms that it can happen here

now, where do you think all this is going?

the consistent systemic failure we see in russia resulting from the erosion of their education system to exist only as a propagandic means of control looms heavily in america's near future.

so… what do we do?

we need to pull every lever of power he have shift this reality. we have to return to the doctrine of the ballot and the bullet. we have to understand that relying only on one or the other will doom us. reforming the system from within has never worked because in order to coagulate the power to reform the system, you must play the game of corruption that makes you part of the system. at the same time, if you ignore the ballot entirely and focus entirely on revolution your movement will be crushed by the huge military power in this realm before you ever gather the collective mass to make change.