The founders left it to "We The People" & we need to pay attention, both senate and house member need to be carefully chosen just as much as presidents. State congress' need watching as well. . . All the way Down Ballot even judges need to be vetted. Yes vote, if there is no one to vote for there is someone or something to vote against. As many people as possible need access to vote.

they don't even want to conserve the past

they have an idealized mythological view of "the past" and conveniently forget all the bad stuff

or they outright sell the concept as a purposeful lie, because they want to return to the bad stuff

But he's not perfect so we have to accept MAGA fascism by not voting. I'm helping! (/s)

If you'd paid attention you would have noticed that Joe was trying as hard as he could. Supported Unions & pushed for them the restart. Tried to get those who went to college out from under unreal debt. Worked to get the many fees that we are all buried under gone. . .the 5 bills would have put us back on our feet as a nation for the people instead of watching our neighbors hate us, tariffs that are just another tax send black shirts to our cities.

My grandmother had a saying "if you don't vote, you don't get to complain"

Maybe it's time we normalise starting to ask people if they voted when they complain

I see the main frustration with campaigning stemming from it interrupting lives that have less and less time to give because of shitty politics, besides.

But yeah, it’s…fun, right now…

I’d imagine a better angle is less about removing campaigning from people’s lives and attention span and rather reduce incentives for the worst among us to seek and hold elected office. Perhaps accepting office requires swearing over one’s ability to seek employment in certain

marx wasn't a revolutionary. he wrote books

and yes the nazis did false flags attacks. as if goering wouldn't lie. as if fascists wouldn't use a real attack as an excuse to remove rights

but go ahead. do your attack. then come back and tell me about naive and stupid from the prison computer

you gotta be smart. violence has to be surgical and thought out if you take that route. not "LEROY JENKINNNSSSS..."

i'm sorry, but i don't care about cosplay revolutionaries

if the usa is going to have a revolution, the critical mass for it is a long way off

until then it's a futile effort that just winds up with people in jail, and fascists using it as an excuse to clamp down on our rights

just fucking vote

so revolutions happen when people can't eat

as long as bellies are full, there's no revolution

and yes, there's hunger in america, but not enough to cause a critical mass

maybe someday, considering how the plutocrats are impoverishing us

(and ps, the american revolution wasn't a revolution, it was a war of independence)

so you get some people who think like you

you organize

you make your strike

but since the great mass of american society is soft, you're a tiny group

so you get caught and sent to jail

then trump and the MAGA fascists use your action remove more of our rights

like so:

Reichstag fire - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

just fucking vote

right, and i continually encounter this

me: "everyone vote"

"some people can't vote"

me: "yes, i know, i'm not talking about those who can't, i'm talking about those who won't"

"we should do other things"

me: "yes i know, i never said we shouldn't. organize, educate, protest, boycott, resist: do it, all of it. and vote"

i've been in this conversation 1,000 times

so you vote, and sustain, and iterate, and shit gets better

but if you go community organize, and ignore the vote, then we go full fascist, and so they just show up and machine gun us while laughing

please: community organize

*and* vote