I mean, in the last few months I carpet bombed an executive team with a well-written email and got a response within two days. If I can get the attention of some money-grubbin, tax dodging, narcissistic, wannabe dictator types to give a shit, I am sure we can collectively manage something.
I won’t ever ask you to not be jaded. In fact, I heavily recommend being wholly pissed. Only just that…the basics should continue. We should write those letters and vote. We should also be doing much more.
Of course they auto-respond. Do you think a senator has the time to write back to everybody who writes to them? That doesn’t mean that they aren’t paying attention.
This is a popularity contest, as it’s always been. There’s more people that want to vote for Trump than there is for Biden. Hinging an entire election on the never-Trumps is fucking risky.
That’s a sad statement to make about a few hundred million voters.
But…it also perfectly aligns with their history.
Last time they de-throned a fascist who threatened global peace and stability it required the ill-judged intervention of a 3rd party…who ironically thought crippling the US Pacific Fleet would do the opposite.
If a serial killer was for sure coming to your house to kill your family, would you open the door for Barney Fife just because you think “well I won’t open the door for the serial killer”?
Or would you maybe ask the police HQ to send a more competent opposition to the serial killer rather than just welcoming Barney Fife with open arms, because “after all, he’s not the serial killer that’s on his way.”
There’s 5 months before the serial killer shows up. That’s more than double how long the entire election cycle for other countries takes.
Plenty of time for HQ to send actual backup, instead of who was already in the neighborhood and offers very little protection against the killer.
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So you want a weak candidate to run against him?
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But we aren’t powerless. Talk to your local Democrats. Heck, email the white house. Making us feel powerless is part of manufactured consent.
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I mean, in the last few months I carpet bombed an executive team with a well-written email and got a response within two days. If I can get the attention of some money-grubbin, tax dodging, narcissistic, wannabe dictator types to give a shit, I am sure we can collectively manage something.
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I won’t ever ask you to not be jaded. In fact, I heavily recommend being wholly pissed. Only just that…the basics should continue. We should write those letters and vote. We should also be doing much more.
So in a way I’m right there with you.
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Of course they auto-respond. Do you think a senator has the time to write back to everybody who writes to them? That doesn’t mean that they aren’t paying attention.
This is a popularity contest, as it’s always been. There’s more people that want to vote for Trump than there is for Biden. Hinging an entire election on the never-Trumps is fucking risky.
That’s a sad statement to make about a few hundred million voters.
But…it also perfectly aligns with their history.
Last time they de-throned a fascist who threatened global peace and stability it required the ill-judged intervention of a 3rd party…who ironically thought crippling the US Pacific Fleet would do the opposite.
Because Trump is such an existential threat.
If a serial killer was for sure coming to your house to kill your family, would you open the door for Barney Fife just because you think “well I won’t open the door for the serial killer”?
Or would you maybe ask the police HQ to send a more competent opposition to the serial killer rather than just welcoming Barney Fife with open arms, because “after all, he’s not the serial killer that’s on his way.”
There’s 5 months before the serial killer shows up. That’s more than double how long the entire election cycle for other countries takes.
Plenty of time for HQ to send actual backup, instead of who was already in the neighborhood and offers very little protection against the killer.
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