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The nation started with only white, land-owning men being able to vote (land which they stole from indigenous people using genocidal violence). Now it's mostly only wealthy, land-owning, disproportionately-white men and women influencing the direction of the nation (at least "through the proper channels").
I think you might have a mythologized vision of America based on the Civil Rights era. That was the exception, not the rule.
Once you reach the point where you're guilty of genocide, I don't think you're allowed to play "lesser" evil anymore. Even if you "only" genocide 400,000 people and 'the other guy' genocides 800,000 people, you're both just irredeemably evil.
Again, we already had that with Bernie Sanders and the DNC rigged it. "Grassroots reform" in the capacity you're talking about is a democratic function. You cannot play democracy with a fundamentally un-democratic institution.
fair
I disagree, but it's not worth pursuing, also fine.
So the answer is moonshot for independent, which will fail and keep RNC in office. That's your plan? Let's just genocide the non whites here?
Kind of tiresome to keep covering the same ground, Bernie wasn't fucking grass roots. You're not going to encact change by chaning out the head. You need to start at the bottom, push congress, then roll over the SCOTUS. You're not going to move shit by putting in an ineffective president over a butthurt congress.
I don't have a plan for salvaging America because I do not believe it's salvageable. I already said that earlier in this discussion. I've spent days and days and days thinking about it, and that's the conclusion I've arrived at. This political discussion we're having here isn't me suggesting how to save the nation; I just refuse to sign my name on endorsing a genocidaire to command the world's largest military. I'm under no illusion that that will stop the genocide, it'll just alleviate my own complicity to the extent possible while still living within America. (As well as being sure to avoid buying any Israeli goods, supporting BDS boycotts, etc.) I believe any person of conscience should also refuse to be complicit in such a manner.
My activism is not aimed at saving America, it's aimed at helping innocent people survive what I view as its inevitable collapse with as little suffering as possible. Building community and food sovereignty. It's nothing glorious but it's more glorious than starving.