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Hurricussy

That’s fine, but the focus should be on the thing with 99% leverage and not on the thing with 1% leverage.

You can say this, but you can’t make it happen. What is more realistic, changing the attitudes and habits of billions of individuals quickly enough to reverse climate change, or enforcing restrictions on thousands of companies?

Yeah I get that they were “joking”. What has voting for Democrats gotten us besides " the status quo… or worse"? This is the point. You guys are the ones who have it backwards. Politicians have to “sell” themselves to the electorate. Democrats don’t even try to do that, which is precisely why someone like Trump can come along and win elections.

Goddam you sound so insufferable. You love your ineffective, status-quo, compromise-with-naked-fascists, liberal Democrats, and you want me to love them too. They don’t fucking represent me or my values. If I vote for them, my concerns are ignored until the next campaign when I’m told my concerns are unrealistic fantasies and that while there is certainly no hope of improving things, they can get worse more slowly than with the Republicans.

Democrats are a failure as a party in opposition to conservatism (or even fascism!). Why is it so much to expect for party leaders to show some fucking leadership? Do politics. Have a vision and do more than pretend to fight for it. Make room in the party for the left if you want our votes.

Instead of hoarding MREs and ammo, people should be building relationships and more self-sustainable communities. You really want to “survive” huffing your own farts in the basement, guarding your canned beans with a gun?