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It bears mentioning that none of this would have been necessary if people have gone out and VOTED in numbers like these.
Instead they first passively threw a tantrum enabling this Gestapo, now their country is a global pariah, not to be trusted again, while expending so much more energy, experiencing much more inconvenience and risk than voting, just to send a symbolic message to sociopaths who have the power, enjoy abusing it, and do NOT care to listen.
Which is to say: this is meaningless, voting is everything and you blew it yet again. But people insist on wanting to be inspired by one godking figurehead, refusing to understand how consistently voting just one day a year, in presidentials, midterms and off-years, is how political momentum is built or eroded, how a government is not one godking president, but an entire system with hundreds of thousands of civil servants, elected, appointed and hired, at every level of government, momentum builds slowly.
If Democrats ever win again, it will be with one hand tied behind their back, facing right-wing sabotage every step of the way, just as has happened every time since Jimmy Carter, and if they can't wave a magic political wand and fix this unfixable mess in one go, the oh-so-precious impatient electorate is going to throw yet another destructive tantrum and back to square minus five or worse.
This is decades in the making. Voting got us here. Couch surfing got us here. It doesn't fuckin matter what got us here. Be helpful, be supportive, get out and take your rights however you see fit (peaceful or not) or shut the fuck up already. Blame needs to come later. The horse is dead.
Voting wrong got us here. Of course it matters what got us here. It matters a lot.
It's interesting that when people remind you of that you want them to shut up and spur them out of the trenches
Historically democrats have mostly kept a lot of bad stuff done by republicans. Voting only delayed the catastrophe waiting to happen
Then people voted for the wrong democrats in the primaries?
A captured system is just that. There's no right vote in it. You can argue the lesser of two evils but you are already on the downhill slide by the time that thought even occurs.
Despite the shit ancient system, it's still possible to get a good outcome. But it requires people voting for good candidates consistently. Saying people should shut up about that and just get violent instead is not the way