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It's actually an incredibly based idea, but the public is too stupid to recognize it.
I mean yes I would love to see it but what I’m also saying is that yes, the public is not going to support it
You're right about the public, but that also means there is no hope and no one should care or try.
If the people will only vote neoliberal or fascist, theres nothing to be done other than store food and water and hope you aren't noticed until complete societal collapse. There is no possible path to a decent society when both choices are fine with the poor dying to enrich their bribers.
I think after 24 years of holding my nose and voting Neoliberal, telling myself the lesser evil will somehow lead to salvation, and fighting for Sanders on 2 campaigns, I'm done participating. Harris was my last gasp of appealing to this cesspool's nonexistent sense of decency. I'm not going to endorse or signify the Neoliberals new meet in the middle low next cycle, where they call for "more humane" concentration camps as compromise. My hands are dirty enough voting for the good cop in this corpo fascist good cop/bad cop routine all this time.
George Carlin called it, the people suck so things really can't get better. We're a garbage people that largely despise the idea of an equitable society. Better collapse than perpetuating that. Not like people who only vote for which tribe to hurt deserve more.
I didn’t say don’t care or try. I’m saying third party isn’t the path.
You're saying something to the left of what we have, a neoliberal party save a literal handful of spoilers they detest more than their fascist opposition that has proven eager to concede to fascists at every turn, and the Fascists themselves, isn't palettable to our people politically. I agreed with your point on that, It's a dark, dark reality.
If our people aren't ready for something to the left of those, and there really isn't anywhere further right to go, we're plotting military annexations and building extralegal concentration camps, where do you see this having even a slim margin to improve before collapse?
Because AOC isn't even that leftwing, she just looks like it from inside the burgeoning fourth Reich.
The only way this is true is if losing is more based than winning.