Preaching to the choir, my friend.

I've been to protests and movements and the like. The system comes down hard on anything that has real grassroots potential. They were terrified of OWS back in the day. Its why they coordinated a nationwide simultaneous strike at east coast dawn to dismantle the entire movement.

I've stared down cops with military gear in their military formations, using chemical weapons in their own city that would otherwise be considered a war crime while also using barricades as battering rams to pin groups of people against the side of a building while the rear line swarmed in with batons and zip ties. And that is after, mind you, they had sent groups in at midnight on the nose to literally destroy the encampments. Chainsaws were put through occupied tents, pharmacies were emptied of useful over-the-counter remedies for things like pepper spray and bruises - there wasn't even any tiger balm or Ben gay, I looked - and they just generally made sure to make everyone in that impromptu community as miserable as possible.

It really is Altman and Musk and Trump who are the problem. They pay the politicians who gladly take the bribes to make sure they all stay fat together. The system allowed them to get so big, but it was last generation's fat cats who really made it possible for the greedy fucks of this generation to run this wild.

Conservatives in this country have long hated the notion of an educated populace. That isn't unique to the US, but we went and took a sledgehammer to our education system over the course of my life and I actively voted against those policies. Outvoted by the idiots.

Get rid of all that money and influence at the top and things stand a chance of actually changing. As it stands, money makes the rules and the rules say money gets to make the rules, so sucks to suck then doesn't it you filthy poor? That's life for most thinking Americans.

This blue wave is something like a fluttering of hope, but it could also just be the final twitches a corpse lets out as all brain activity shuts down. We shall see.