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This is a terrible gamble and one you are not likely to win. You think things are almost as bad as they can get, that we're close to the brink of some glorious revolution. We are not. Things can get SO MUCH worse. The amount of misery can increase exponentially. Take a minute to process that word, "exponentially". As bad as it is now, it can get twice as bad. And then twice as bad as that, which is already worse than you're capable of imagining. But we're not nearly done yet. We have barely gotten started on our terrible journey. The depths of misery are deeper than the Mariana Trench. We have a loooooooong way to go.
It's not a path worth pursuing unless "things getting worse" is your desired ends, rather than just a means to an end. You will be dead (and likely not of old age) before things get bad enough to reach a tipping point.
The better path, the path involving less human suffering, is the slow and steady march of progress. This path may not excite the minds of heady teenagers, but it WORKS.
I'm not happy about it either, but I predicted Trump would win 2024 back in 2018 when the DNC pulled their shenanigans against Bernie and nothing that's happened since then suggests a change in course.
America isn't a Democracy, it merely pretends it isn't an oligarchy.
Like hell you're not. This mindset of yours very coincidentally requires absolutely no action on your part. That's what you're happy about.
You're not evil, you're just lazy and trying to justify it.
My state has universal mail-in voting, it literally requires no effort.
Pretend I'm happy and lazy if you want, I'll be over here making plans to GTFO the USA.
Coward
One seems to presume that I would care how some rando on the internet wants to judge my character when my right to continue existing as a trans person is under active threat by my own government...
The "Last Days of the Weimar Republic" vibe has never been stronger.