What if the something new is the acceleration of a militarized autocratic economy that offers you a walmart and a mcdonalds and wipes out community favored locally funded and govt assisted functions.
Thereâs no risk-free path to getting better. Quit being such a politics nit.
Iâm not sure what type of economical utopia youâd most prefer but If you were interested in sticking it to the largest corporations that currently have enough global/environmental leverage, the ability to thwart future ideas and businesses and dictate pricing, wages, labor laws, and product variety, protesting harder next to Pabloâs Pizza isnât going help on that front - not that I got anything against protesting. There are far more powerful methods if that was your one of your goals.
Like, walmart would prefer to hurry up the process of locking up every item and get folks to use their pickup lanes and Amazon will be perfectly content with Harryâs hardware not having a single prospect ever again that gets them above negative margins to compete against them.
Are your sure youâre not BruceZ?
Iâm just saying, looking for solutions using traditional politics and methods feels hopeless at times. Some people want to just give up. I want to think about non-traditional methods. Otherwise, whatâs the point of living?
Traditional politics is so much better of a solution than any sort of political upheaval. The idea that some violent revolution is going to put us in a better place than today seems crazy to me. Like <2% chance. Military dictatorship is probably one of the better options among the likely outcomes. These guys who we see shooting cases of Bud Light with Gatling guns or whatever the weirdos are doing today are going to join up with the police and military to win any sort of conflict and go straight to some Khmer Rouge-esque regime where all of societyâs ills are blamed on minorities and the educated left.
Iâm not rich but probably privileged enough to get my family out of the country and somewhere sane, as would many many other people who actually have skills and morals to fight for and build a better society.
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The thing that the right wing did with the Federalist Society and the takeover of the judiciary? Theyâre also doing that with the military and other parts of the government. I think as of right now the military leadership would support upholding the Constitution. If you think some sort of conflict is inevitable, then you want it to happen before control of certain institutions slips away.
Civil War II is not inevitable.
So what rules were rewritten to prevent a primary challenge of Diane Feinstein? Or an independent running against her?
Jungle primary. It was her vs a progressive in the general. He got 5M. She got 6M.
So how is that rigged by the boomers to make a boomer win? Are you telling me there are more boomers living in that district than there are gen x and younger?
All the money and power of the party was lined up fof Feinstein with endorsements by Dem congresscritters. Maybe you think those things donât matter but they do.
No it isnât impossible to get younger progressive candidates elected but the game is rigged to make it very hard.
An incumbent progressive supported by the party machinery would have beat Feinstein by 90+ points. The fact she barely won proves the opposite of your point.
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oops I dropped into an argument. Thereâs not any rules preventing Gen X or Millenials from running, but it takes alot of money. Especially in a huge state like CA. Itâs easier for incumbents to get the needed money. And that pulls even the left wing party towards the right.
edit and as usual my pony is being pushed in a wheelchair by its handlers.
The argument being presented was that things are rigged in favor of boomers but none of what is being mentioned so far as to why Diane Feinstein is still in power are things that only work for boomers or is actual riggage. And she is just the most obvious example of someone who should have gotten zero support from anyone below the age of 50 at the last election. Human nature so far has always been that people donât give up power, you have to work hard to take it from them. I know my generation failed miserable at that but millennials with much more at stake and less boomers alive are not doing any better.
Millennials would have complained that Hitler rigged Europe.
Feinstein was born thirteen years before the start of the baby boom. If the system is rigged for boomers, then why couldnât she have been defeated by a boomer who might be a spry 60-something?
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There are no atheists anti-Americans in foxholes the gulag.
Honestly I hope she goes ahead and grifts millions off her transformation into a Real American.
The Clarence Thomas Maneuver