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Oh they're really upset, very serious finger wagging. We might even get up to "sternly worded letter" levels of anger.
Then give them more power. They aren't gonna act outside of what the law allows them to.
They all chase incentives. They are only in congress in the first place as a career anyway. Idk if any democratic candidate has even been floating the idea of overturning citizens united recently, but until they become the party of ~~money out of politics~~ having made bribing politicians illegal and having re-nationalized ~~the federal reserve~~ the US currency system back from the parasite class, I think they both look nearly the exact same shade of purple to me. Once buying children from over seas is off the table and no epsteen class sociopaths are ever platformed again, politics may become a tool for protecting and producing avenues for upward mobility for the lowest quality of life individuals, families, and communities, both “domestic” and “foreign”
Change takes time and we are moving in the wrong direction. You're giving the "both sides" argument and I don't buy it for a fucking minute. We didn't have these aggressive ICE tactics under any Dem, we didn't have wildly reduced NIH, medicare, and medicaid funding under Dems (including food inspection changes that are working against us). We didn't have "woke is the cause of all things evil" under Dems (and DEI includes protections for disabled people). We didn't have environmental regulations wiped out under Dems. We didn't have our election integrity threatened under Dems... I could go on. All these things are incredibly important but because you buy into the "both sides" argument all you can see are the extremes.
what we think doesn’t matter, only what we do. And one does not have to “buy” ideas, they are free to pick up and set down at any time, contrary to popular beliefs. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I don’t disagree with you. I simply fear that generations will pass with people still continuing to be sold to leaders of whatever system is in control before we can ever work meaningfully towards dismantling trafficking pipelines, if that could ever even be possible here.
I’m not advocating against voting for democrats, in case you were inserting that into your understanding of my position. I think if you can vote, you should vote for them this election, especially if you live in a christian nationalist community, since that would likely suggest that you would be directly contributing toward a more workable [pun found] position for the working (non-parasite) class in the future. That doesn’t have to mean that I expect any restorative policies out of the Democrats at the federal level any time soon. We can create new ~~parties~~ systems, it’s not ~~illegal or~~ impossible