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American citizens sit by and allow this shit to happen.
What would you like me to do? I am one person. I go to protest and call my congressman who is a MAGA. Outside of any metro area it is a sea of fundamentalisms and meth. One third of this country is violently MAGA, a third does not seem to care, and my third is trying but we seem to be drowned out. There are people fighting in legal ways for now. I don't know what it will take to get the sleeping third to wake up. Call me a coward if you like but there will be no shot heard round the world bullshit this time. Just look at what the German people did after Sophie Scholl was executed. Nothing. I guess I just proved your point.
I swear these people are fucking bots and their whole purpose is to drive a wedge. I'm actually seeing a bit of a turn recently on the "America Bad" front, evidenced by an approaching 50/50 split of ups and downs. And I think bot is the best case, because then it's just some keyboard warrior who clearly doesn't understand the situation and parrots some other comments on an article from a biased source that they didn't even bother to read.
Like you, my Congressman is useless. His name is Tom Kean Jr. He's a nepo politician, and as that goes he doesn't deserve to stand in his father's shadow. He's a moderate Republican who is almost impossible to find and takes no stance on anything. We never hear from him. But this district was drawn to mix communities like mine in with communities that vote for him and so here I am.
That more ignorant suggestions (which I don't want to besmirch the OC here, I'm sure they'd go down this path eventually) would have us take up arms against ... whatever. Storm the Capitol, maybe. Any mention of that being stupid is called weak.
So yeah, I'm with you.
And every Russian supports Putin and every Iranian loves religious rule. What a stupid thing to say.
American citizens go to work and don't turn on the news. News is for those who can afford to worry.
More like "Most Americans are so self-absorbed, they can't be bothered until the problems start affecting them directly in their daily lives"
And they’re complicit.
I also blame the poor for choosing to work instead of fighting my wars.
This is one of many areas we have a false choice in. We can have party A spend 901 Billion or Party B spend 902 Billion. There is an out and good people are working on bringing up candidates outside the old system. But it will take time.