It’s been a little over half a year since RFK Jr. was confirmed as Secretary of Health and Human Services and his tenure thus far has been chaotic, to put it mildly. Listing all of the variou…
New York fielded AOC and now Mamdani. Georgia flipped blue back in 2020.
Local elections matter. Arguably moreso than federal (barring deranged fascist dictators taking over…). That is how republicans gain the power to destroy school boards and take over states so that they can gerrymander it and make it much harder to ever be voted out.
So… maybe you should think harder before choosing to do nothing?
Ah, apologies. I did not realize you were part of secret seal team seven.
But… honestly? Try harder. It fucking sucks and it is massively demoralizing. But if there is any hope in the system then it involves fixing things locally and propagating that upwards. It is literally what republicans did and we can see the counter efforts bearing fruit around the country.
And if there is no longer any way to run counter efforts (increasingly likely come 2028…) then we are in a very different stage of things and probably shouldn’t be discussing that on public facing forums.
See, I’ve given up hope in the system. Republicans managed to do it because the institutions still sort of worked, and they destroyed them during their takeover so it can’t happen again.
But you’ll understand if stuff like what you said makes people assume you are a lazy doomer who doesn’t understand how the government works rather than someone actively discouraging others from even trying.
Jesus fucking christ dude, you’re talking like anyone can run and win in local elections.
Over 100 people usually run for every position, and most of them never get the signatures they need to run because nobody knows them because they don’t start off with enough money to advertise their name everywhere.
The system is absolutely fucked and we are not going to vote our way out, engage with reality and stop with the Neoliberal talking points
Please stop discouraging people from understanding the systems around them and feeding them propaganda.
Which just means we’re more fucked because to fix the system we need people to vote more.
We’re in a crashing plane and the cockpit is locked.
Elections are run locally. You can get involved.
If I thought it would have any effect at all I would certainly do that.
New York fielded AOC and now Mamdani. Georgia flipped blue back in 2020.
Local elections matter. Arguably moreso than federal (barring deranged fascist dictators taking over…). That is how republicans gain the power to destroy school boards and take over states so that they can gerrymander it and make it much harder to ever be voted out.
So… maybe you should think harder before choosing to do nothing?
You say that like I haven’t been fruitlessly doing that for a quarter century.
Maybe think harder before assuming I don’t know how fucked we actually are.
Ah, apologies. I did not realize you were part of secret seal team seven.
But… honestly? Try harder. It fucking sucks and it is massively demoralizing. But if there is any hope in the system then it involves fixing things locally and propagating that upwards. It is literally what republicans did and we can see the counter efforts bearing fruit around the country.
And if there is no longer any way to run counter efforts (increasingly likely come 2028…) then we are in a very different stage of things and probably shouldn’t be discussing that on public facing forums.
See, I’ve given up hope in the system. Republicans managed to do it because the institutions still sort of worked, and they destroyed them during their takeover so it can’t happen again.
We are most definitely in that new stage.
And that’s great.
But you’ll understand if stuff like what you said makes people assume you are a lazy doomer who doesn’t understand how the government works rather than someone actively discouraging others from even trying.
Oh yeah, I get a ton of hate for it.
Doesn’t bother me. It’s not like the internet is real.
Jesus fucking christ dude, you’re talking like anyone can run and win in local elections.
Over 100 people usually run for every position, and most of them never get the signatures they need to run because nobody knows them because they don’t start off with enough money to advertise their name everywhere.
The system is absolutely fucked and we are not going to vote our way out, engage with reality and stop with the Neoliberal talking points
Please stop discouraging people from understanding the systems around them and feeding them propaganda.