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As cynical as that is, it’s still progress for politicians to acknowledge that a thing should happen. It means we are slowly gaining ground.
Cynical? It's what history has shown us for decades. We've been loosing ground for eighty years. Now mega-banks own everything, including our politicians and courts, and even children see so little hope they're shooting up their schools. Only adults can so quickly rationalize away their dignity.
"Slowly" isn't good enough for me. And, it shouldn't be good enough for you, either.
Then convince the idiots around you to vote for better people in local, community, state, and congressional/Senate elections. The biggest problem we face is the house and Senate. If they weren't so evenly split, things would get done. But if we can have decent state or local elections, we can get those same laws passed on a smaller level.
So sure, you can look at it as empty promises, or you can see it as "What I would do if you fuckers would give me a Senate and house that are favorable to it." Because a lot stands between a promise and a law. And part of that is political will too. If she runs on it and wins by a decent margin, then the Congress is more likely to be amenable to it. Because they have that political capital to spend.
You've mistaken your oppressor for your savior. The banks own all the Republicans and Democrats. They even own the courts. No politicians could save us even if they wanted to. It's up to us to remove the yoke of corporate personhood and oligopoly directly. Our trade unions will lead us, as always.
I have done neither. The Savior of societies are its peoples and their collective action. Enough will and then even banks have no power.
Vote harder. It's worked so well this far.
No. Vote harder. If that doesn't work, protest harder. And if that doesn't work, revolt.
Change is possible. Just not instantaneously and not without great effort and reason between people.
You fucking idiots don't know anything but dichotomy. You don't even know the means that've been effective in history.
Look, I wanna eat every CEOs liver just as much as the next guy, but there are far less bloody means to try before we go all Robespierre on them.