Step 1: Stop attacking the Bill of Rights.
this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2026
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seems far better to listen to your frequent voters in the base turned off by leaderships inability to listen to them then it is to chase mythical focus group groups.
The issue is you think progressives are the frequent voters, they aren’t nor are the young.
Just tell them JD fucked the proverbial couch. They’ll get right up.
And also show them a picture of JD Vance and explain that he's Peter Thiel's lapdog. And explain who Peter Thiel is. And explain why he's bad and therefore why Vance is bad.
On second thought, reaching the willfully ignorant is gonna be a fucking task and a half, especially with fox news blasting in public spaces like waiting rooms while critical thinking is gutted in public schools.
It's hard to feel bad for America right now. We had it coming. We told ourselves for 80 years that it can't happen here, so our guard wasn't up to contend with the reality that it could happen here, guaranteeing our eventual current state of fucking happening here.
I don't know how this ends in anything other than violent collapse, and I'm not sure how to get my family out in time or where to go. I won't be considered a valid refugee until after these Nazis have us too trapped to get out at all. People are too exhausted and stupid to organize into effective resistance. I doubt it would take that many bodies to surround the white house with rifles and achieve regime change, but nobody's coming to save us, and that includes our bickering, divided left and also the feckless liberals trying to soften everything to just some light fascism that's still 100 calories of fascism, but that's better than 140 calories of fascism so we're supposed to just be over the fucking moon with all their hard work.
I'm so tired of warranted anxiety. Say what you want about Biden, (believe me, I have my complaints,) but he at least kept the car on the road. He got us off the rumble strips. Now we've already careened off the cliff, but nobody will acknowledge it until we hit the bottom in a fiery explosion. It would take a fucking miracle to sprout wings and save us at this point.
I have to disagree with the hard to feel bad part . I’m American. Every election I’ve ever voted in has been plagued with Trump. I didn’t spend 80 years saying that it couldn’t happen here. I’ve never really seen what an election without Trump looks like. At least not one that I was old enough to participate in. It’s difficult for me to not feel that the older generations have let my generation down. That’s where my frustration lies. I don’t think the younger generation deserves the blame yet.
I don’t mean to sound morbid, but I’m excited that boomers are close to aging out of politics (aka dying). Will be nice to finally have some younger representation. Too bad it couldn’t have happened sooner.
Primaries are important
Primaries are important
Edit lol I guess they're not
Left: NeVaR!!1