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As GOP Pushes Tax Giveaways for the Rich, Sanders Launches 'National Tour to Fight Oligarchy'
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The entire circus is a masterclass in maintaining the illusion of resistance. Sanders’ roadshow against oligarchs? Admirable theater, but let’s not pretend it’ll dent the armor of a system where both parties kneel to capital. The Democrats’ leadership is too busy courting Silicon Valley’s purse-strings to notice their base drowning in medical debt and predatory rents.
Propaganda outlets spin Musk as some maverick genius while he pickaxes the last remnants of public infrastructure. Meanwhile, 60% of the country can’t afford a $500 emergency, but sure—let’s debate which billionaire’s tax cut gets extended.
The real kicker? Watching career politicians feign confusion when asked to actually fight. Resistance has become a branding exercise, all hashtags and hollow rhetoric. The machine keeps grinding, whether you’re wearing a blue tie or a red one.
This is Loser Defeatism rhetoric. Please do not slander Bernie Sanders. There are so many great things about Sanders. Sanders is proof that not all politicians lie. He is proof that politicians do not need to be bootlickers. Sanders tells us exactly what our real problems are and he tells us exactly how to fix them. He's right when he tells us what to do (focus on wealth inequality) and he is right when he tells us what not to do (focus on identity politics and personalities).
Loser Defeatism? Cute. Idolizing Sanders doesn’t make the system less broken; it just makes you a willing participant in the illusion. Sanders talks a big game about inequality, but what has that actually changed? His “truth-telling” hasn’t stopped the machine from grinding people down—it’s just made you feel better about watching it happen.
You call this defeatism, but the real defeat is clinging to a system that rewards performative outrage while crushing any real dissent. Sanders isn’t proof of what’s possible; he’s proof of how easily hope can be commodified. Keep cheering for your hero while the rest of us figure out how to break the machine he props up.
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stretches fingers in middle english
O Stompy, thou bard of misplaced adoration,
Thy words do weave a gilded fabrication.
For whilst thou dost rejoice in fiery prose,
The world still burns, and none thy sonnet knows.
Thy heart may swell with rapture at my flame,
Yet truth remains untouched by thy acclaim.
What use is verse when action is denied?
What worth hath song if justice is belied?
Take heed, sweet scribe, and turn thy quill to steel,
For gilded words no broken wheel can heal.
Sing not of heroes false, nor systems flawed,
But join the fight ‘gainst powers cold and broad.
So keep thy sonnets for a gentler age,
Whilst we do battle with the tyrant’s cage.
Can you do thus style?
https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Translation:Catullus_16