There’s nothing to be “duped” about. I’m talking about a specific program which he fought against, for obvious reasons. There are other interests in play. Sinema, for example, has fought against negotiating drug prices, for obvious reasons. — Xtrix
So your hope is a reality. If you refuse to see it, that’s your business. Now what? Stay home? Tear it all down? Give us your plan. — Xtrix
It will be such a mystery how this keeps happening! — StreetlightX
and it wasn't Manchin, it would be someone else. — StreetlightX
Give us your plan.
— Xtrix
The first step is to stop perpetuating harm by buying into these hand-fed narratives. — StreetlightX
It is an active harm to continue to act as if the democrats are not against any sense of progress by matter of design. It provides cover and provides a guarantee that they will continue to be a wholly corporate owned party that occasionally will rename a street in honor of BLM. — StreetlightX
The narrative you buy into and feed - which the democrats in turn have fed you themselves - is itself a harm. — StreetlightX
What you 'push for,' actively makes things worse, by enabling worse conditions. — StreetlightX
We gotta keep looking (and pushing) at the bright side, yes, cynicism only guarantees the worst possible situation as it just leads either to apathy or to pointless rage, in which one rails against everything while the world keeps humming along. — Manuel
What’s the alternative I’m missing in terms of action? — Xtrix
It’s failed, and that’s disappointing. — Xtrix
No leftist supports the Democratic party. — StreetlightX
What’s the alternative I’m missing in terms of action?
— Xtrix
What kind of question is this in response to what I wrote? — StreetlightX
peddle the idea that the chief impediment to progress is not the democratic party as such, but just a couple of rogue elements here and there which can be brought to heel with some activism here and there. — StreetlightX
It is deliberate. — StreetlightX
People speak of Biden being "forced to water-down" this or that bill. Please. He does it with joy. — StreetlightX
It's disappointing to those who had any expectation it would be allowed to pass by the democrats at all. — StreetlightX
I keep telling you, and you keep displacing the issue. This very vocabulary is the problem. — StreetlightX
The democratic party is a hostile agent, — StreetlightX
70 years of rightward drift of which democrats have been exemplary lubricants and people have the gall to think it is 'adolescent' to call out this utter bullshit for what it is and to ask that people stop lapping up the orchestrated cycles. — StreetlightX
Anyone who tells anyone else that unless they believe in the democratic party, they 'lack hope', can walk into the ocean and never come back out of sheer embarrassment. — StreetlightX
Don't you dare lecture me about hope and cynicism — StreetlightX
Your posturing is fantastic, though. We're all very impressed. — Xtrix
What’s the alternative I’m missing in terms of action?
— Xtrix
What kind of question is this in response to what I wrote? — StreetlightX
The first step is to stop perpetuating harm by buying into these spoon-fed narratives — StreetlightX
Then I could sit on my ass doing nothing as well. — Xtrix
It would be better, for you and others like you, in particular, to do nothing. — StreetlightX
Because I'm a democratic operative/apologist who's perpetuating harm and giving cover to the party. — Xtrix
Much easier to be cynical. This way you can appear to be above all the silly “activism”— with the added benefit of having to do nothing except sit on your ass, read books, and write some comments on the Internet. Political hobbyism 101.
Feels great; accomplishes nothing. For those living in the real world, and want to do something — however small — the best thing to do is ignore such people. They don’t have a single solution in their heads anyway. — Xtrix
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