I'll let the reformists do the reforming. And I'll be there every step of the way to point out when those reforms don't work.
That is my job. The reformists only want to manage the symptoms. Or at least pretend that they want to manage the symptoms because they will come up with bureaucratic excuses to take away those reforms and to not let you have them in the first place.
Economic base of society reproduces certain behaviors in our cultural/ideological superstructure. You want to manage the symptoms, I want to cure the disease.
It kinda sucks that something like this is being done for an anti-abortion agenda rather than interest in keeping our water clean and safe to drink.
Easy access to guns, lack of access to mental healthcare.
I'm not really opinionated on what is the bigger issue, I just know those things need addressed instead of pretending to care about them, then forgetting in 2 weeks when everyone moves onto the next thing.
Run for office and do what exactly? Okay, I guess i could potentially win something at a county or city level. Great. Then I propose things, and shucks all my proposals get turned down because more bureaucracy. "We can't do that, what with the state laws and such" I've literally watched this song and dance at many a city council meeting, often involving someone that I personally campaigned for!
What an absolute fucking waste of time it was for me to have even tried. I did everything the way I was supposed to, but I'm now almost 10 years into this, and I've got exactly nothing to show for it. Some of you might be happy doing this charade until you're 80 years old, but not me. Take your pragmatism, utilitarianism, whatever word of the day you decide to use to justify opportunism and shove it where the sun don't shine.
Hopefully not by voting. I absolutely loath peoples misplaced trust in bureaucratic mechanisms. If you want something done you do it, I'm not going to vote for someone in one of the pre-approved parties, just for them to give 40 reasons why it's unreasonable. You are never allowed to vote when it could actually create change, remember that.
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I do hate the democrats more than the republicans, because they actually fool people into believing the system can be reformed, that it works, that there can be progress, that we can "build back better!". They insist we must use the system to reform the system, but will endlessly use the system as an excuse to do nothing or even hinder progress (re: rigging the primary against Bernie, no, I will never forget that). That's the democrats platform. Our glorious bureaucracy, which can never be shaken.
The republicans demonstrate how easy it is to create change. They just do it, regardless of this or that rule or regulation (albeit mostly in the wrong direction). They do it so effectively that people have ran to the democrats in fear of things getting worse. Even many self proclaimed communists vote democrat out of this fear.
You have to ask yourself, what good are the democrats in fighting them off if the republicans simply enforce their political will no matter what? The answer is simple, they are no good, they are worthless. They will continue the spectacle of democracy, of order, of good table manners, they will wave their finger over the vulgar and uncivil behavior of the republicans and will do absolutely nothing else. This is what the democrats fight for. Politics as performance, as empty gestures.
Wake up.
$0.05 yearly raise and an employee pizza party, take it or leave it.
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I find it very humorous that all the drugs that festival hippies were telling people to take to cure their depression are being used to cure peoples depression now.