I just don't understand how to shake people out of apathy. By scores of metrics, America is doing terribly compared to other Western democracies, and the proof is ready and evident. But Americans just don't care, "who is kamala harris" was trending on google on election day.

Then add all that on top of disinformed Americans that will fight to keep their chains.

the us military has government run grocery stores btw and the world hasnt ended

Old White Guy: "We're doing more capitalism. You will live in the pod and eat the bugs and own nothing and like it. Nothing will fundamentally change."

Young Arab Guy: "We're going to try to make cost of living go down at the expense of private profits and turn NYC into a place where you don't need to be a millionaire to live well."

I mean, this isn't an issue of being "Twice as Good". It's an issue of being diametrically opposed to the ruling class.

Kindly? No.

They can go fuck themselves with a spiked mace and pour hot sauce over the wounds it creates.

The people freaking out over this, but not over the literal forming of a dictatorship are absolute scum.

The fear is these city run grocery stores may prove to be useful and popular and people elsewhere would start demanding them. And we can’t have the peasants giving money to the government rather than the owner of Krogers.

What's the grocery store idea? Open them in food deserts?

The Democratic Party establishment would prefre 8 more years of Trump, over losing control of the party to people like Zohran Mamdani.

Speaking of Trump, you'd think Fox News would go back to saying the word "uncertainty" every 13 seconds like they did during the whole Obama administration. But apparently not.

Uhh, Eric Adams was also black. Just sayin'.

Maybe the deciding factor is class rather than race?

Nah, couldn't be it. It's not as if they would stand to benefit from us poors' constant infighting.