Not at all.

The status quo is unacceptable, and if a bit of rhetoric can jolt someone out of their slumber, it is appropriate and right.

Is it a transcendental condition of a “medium-term world you’d wish to live in” that the majority wisely chose it?

What an amazing question. God bless you and everything around you that is supportive of you.

Right now the answer is yes. I am too weak (and likely insufficiently knowledgeable) now to create my own justice for myself. So yes I need support. A lot of support.

But even when I won’t need the support, as best as I can figure myself out now, I still prefer the aesthetics of camaraderie over the aesthetics of me walking over a pile of corpses.

Bottom line, I need at least a few friends who fully understand and support me and my interests, no matter what. I enjoy spending time in solitude but I don’t want to be absolutely alone, no matter what, even if I had all the power.

I am in training right now. I won’t always be as dumb and as weak as I am now.

But, if you’ve rationalized that a minority will choose wisely and another minority will choose correctly but not wisely, then I think you don’t need broad popular support and good ideas. That’s what happens afterwards. Today, we need to be better than popular and good.

I don’t disagree.

And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right.

I am a treasure of my own world. And to me you are also a precious treasure. I want neither of us to sacrifice too soon, but let us make our own wisest decisions. Power without wisdom is blind. Wisdom without power is impotent. Let it be so.

Yes /s but I don’t want to make it explicit. I’d rather people think I am being literal and get enraged. That benefits my interests more than the karma points.

Whatever makes the people hold the Democrats more accountable, and stop giving them a pass because they’re not as bad as the “competition.”

1. Advocacy. Mouth to mouth education like what you are already doing. Too few people understand yet. We need more people with this same understanding first.

2. Direct action, and I don’t exclude anything. Protests and strikes make an impact, but they are just two forms of direct action out of infinity. Direct action means taking matters into your own hands instead of delegating.

The thing is, if you want to take the more radical forms of direct action while still staying relatively safe yourself, you need broad popular support. See #1 above.

Eventually, the primary beneficiaries and boosters of the status quo, the billionaires, will fold.

Isn’t it telling that you have to ask?

I see this dynamic in our two party system:

The governing party makes wealth inequality worse.

The difference between R’s and D’s is how quickly they sprint toward greater and greater wealth inequality.

R’s don’t even discuss economics beyond offering meaningless platitudes. R’s never use economic metrics outside national deficit and never hold themselves responsible outside cutting all the social programs. This is what they call “fiscal responsibility” (to their billionaire donors).

D’s pretend to care about economics and do use a few metrics but always deceptively. They talk about jobs gained but never the conditions of those jobs. They talk about inflation slowing but never talk about the inability of the bottom quintile to build wealth.

Thus economics is guaranteed to worsen no matter who is in power. Which when this gets bad enough, the center folds, because very few can tolerate the status quo. So people rush to political radicalism on the left and on the right, because people want “anything but THIS!”

Both parties are complicit and work together to fuck the people over.

I don’t care about the project of centrist capitalism.

You’re assuming the DNC can’t just change their own rules first.

The DNC is a private corporation. Corporations are people too, friend.

Everything you said checks out, sir.

If golfing is working, yes.

The Democratic Party cannot fail us.

It is only us who can fail the Democratic Party.

I think there is little to no trust between the parties.

I don’t trust the christofascists.

And I imagine most sane people feel the same about the islamofascists.

I imagine that even with a ceasefire there is a real risk that as long as Netanyahu and his right wing government are in power.

Netanyahu is an unrepentant dyed in the wool fanatic.

I support the USA eliminating this fool.

Fuck Netanyahu and his friends.

I can’t stand how presumptive and arrogant Netanyahu is.

I’m not voting for the fascist candidate

Neither am I.

I’m not voting in a way that will help the fascist candidate win.

Yes you are. You are just not seeing why that’s true.

Biden’s billionaires probably want to replace him with an even more unhinged capitalist who can lie his ass off to the plebs. Who could that be? Uh-huh! It’d be Gavin Newsom!

The press constantly talks about the so-called “money primary.” No Dem has ever objected to such phrasing.

The money primary is the actual primary in our system of governance.

We the plebs only get to pick one of the pre-selected billionaire champions.

Whose aim?

I aim to represent my interests. My foes have their own interests.

You still don’t take any personal responsibility for ushering in fascism? You will lump it all on me?

Thank you for letting me know that you are my foe.

Liz was splitting the left vote with Bernie, on purpose.

Liz is a traitor.

See, he didn’t say it before but only says it now, because now it’s PERSONAL. And did he really use the word “millionaires” instead of “billionaires?” If yes, he’s a goddam coward, and I thank him for letting me know.

I don’t see any nicer way to dignify my own interests.

I will not be initiating violence. I will be voting my conscience non-violently. If that is not morally enough, and if people like you false equivalence me with the fascists, then I will understand that all along you were secretly at war with my interests, but your secret will be out the second you refuse to distinguish me from a fascist.