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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Another data point (if you needed one) that republicans and billionaires only give a shit about something when it affects them personally.

    Illegal deportations - not their problem

    threats to journalists - not their problem

    dehumanizing specific groups of people - not their problem

    thousands of federal employees losing their jobs overnight - not their problem

    defying constitutional amendments - not their problem

    Fuck with their ability to hoard more money - Shit we need to do something!





  • shifting to the right instead of listening to the massive calls for more progressive policies

    My thought is that the center-right Democrats that hold power in the federal government saw what happened to the center-right Republicans when MAGA took over, the centrist lost power to the more right leaning politicians. If the centrist Democrats do the same they will lose power as well. So their strategy has been to ignore and undermine the more left leaning policies and candidates so they can stay in power longer.







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    It’s true that politicians don’t usually lead, they look to the voting base to see what they can do. I think the issue right now is that there isn’t (yet) a unifying leader that can mobilize a big enough population of people to make it impossible for the media to ignore. while I think smaller protests have their place they are useless if they don’t move to something bigger. And something bigger - that being millions of people filling the streets of multiple cities - won’t happen without a big charismatic leader like Martin Luther King, jr.

    Yet the middle of the road, center right democrats that hold power see this as a challenge to their control. They only have to look to how the GOP was hollowed out by a big charismatic leader in trump. The more “moderate” republicans lost control to the more extreme right - the moderate democrats don’t want that and will do what they can to hold down that yet unknown person from gaining a voice for the left.