Many people in power are not offering an honest assessment of where we are politically in this country because that assessment would call on them to do things they simply refuse to do. That's where we are right now.
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This is exactly the essence of stagnation: those in power refuse to speak the truth because it forces them to take action,and others refuse to hear the truth because it compels them to change something. The result? We’re all stuck in a vortex of denial,with reality deteriorating while the discussion
jul 24, 2025, 2:01 pm • 16 0 • view
centers around the tone of the speech rather than its substance.
jul 24, 2025, 2:01 pm • 10 0 • view
It’s because they all have manipulated the system in some way shape or form. They are too comfortable. It’s about time to make fools UNCOMFORTABLE 💯
jul 24, 2025, 4:00 pm • 0 0 • view
I heard Michael Steele say something like “if we even have elections in 2028” and it was shocking because most everyone keeps saying we just gotta get out the vote! And there’s Mr Steele just saying what my own brain is saying… need more of that so we don’t feel insane.
jul 24, 2025, 9:38 pm • 9 0 • view
It's not polite to suggest that the fascists will organize unfair elections and God forbid that you say there may be no elections at all.
jul 24, 2025, 9:40 pm • 9 0 • view
It’s why I yell at politicians on this app so much 😩
jul 24, 2025, 7:44 pm • 0 0 • view
For them to make such an assessment would result in the loss of jobs, power, influence, connections. They would be shunned by the elite class.
jul 24, 2025, 2:25 pm • 5 0 • view
The other option is to get their head in the basket They don't feel like the alternative is death But to go against AIPAC they do feel that that means death Do we understand where we're stuck yet and why it's so duckling stupid to let any handful of anyone control everything that everyone needs?!
jul 24, 2025, 3:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Years ago, when I had just learned to read, My mom got a sign that said "Lead, follow, or get the fuck out of the way" We assemble governments for specific reasons (and if the white house hadn't taken it down, you could read about them) so if they don't want to lead, there are two other options...
jul 24, 2025, 4:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Mostly because most of the people in power are demonstrably ideologically bankrupt and they don't see the upside of risking their payday.
jul 24, 2025, 1:49 pm • 0 0 • view
I feel like that statement could apply to any point in the last 15 years, which is a pretty damning indictment of the US political system
jul 24, 2025, 1:32 pm • 3 0 • view
@judgeluttig.bsky.social gave it to us straight on July 4th from the Declaration of Independence. Read why the founding fathers decided it was necessary to cut ties from a tyrannical king. Hint: we are there. substack.com/@judgeluttig...
jul 24, 2025, 2:41 pm • 4 0 • view
I want to know why there isn't bigger outrage against Dem Senators who in spite of everything ****keep**** voting for Trump's cabinet picks. They are effectively cutting off the head of resistance to Trump.
jul 24, 2025, 2:23 pm • 4 0 • view
Why do you think Dems have sub-20% approval ratings even in this age of negative polarization? All the outrage at Trump, yet his main political opposition is even more hated. Because most of us see how weak and ineffectual they are.
jul 24, 2025, 10:38 pm • 3 0 • view
Americans are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism or communism. Our advantage is that we learn from their experience. Now is a good time to do so. Be alive to the fatal notions of emergency and exception. Be angry about the treacherous use of patriotic vocabulary.
jul 24, 2025, 4:47 pm • 1 1 • view
Yesssss! Ditto to lots of what other folks have replied. It’s wild to watch it all.
jul 24, 2025, 2:22 pm • 1 0 • view
So basically that confirms we are a defacto fascist dictatorship.
jul 24, 2025, 2:01 pm • 3 0 • view
💯
jul 24, 2025, 1:22 pm • 5 0 • view
And some of them think they'd prefer Trump's brand of fascism to the only viable alternative (taxing the rich)
jul 25, 2025, 5:12 am • 3 0 • view
I think they don't know. Their bubble is thick. Most of them have money. They get their news from their staff. The changes won't affect them right now, and might never affect them, if they are white males.
jul 24, 2025, 7:03 pm • 0 0 • view
I think this is true of ordinary citizens, too.
jul 24, 2025, 8:19 pm • 0 0 • view
For a lot of ordinary folks, that's just a lack of options. I realize how screwed we are. And I'm doing what I can to brace for the storm. Stocked my pantry. Upped my donations to the local food bank. Joined a few activist groups. Not much more I can do that isn't just "suicide by cop" in practice.
jul 24, 2025, 10:39 pm • 1 0 • view
💯 They refuse because it's not in their self-interest to resist. And that's what infuriates me. A Democratic Party that absolutely fails to represent any of the constituencies targeted by this regime.
jul 24, 2025, 1:39 pm • 15 0 • view
100%, you can see exactly where people's loyalties truly lie when you see what they are willing to do to cling to power.
jul 24, 2025, 1:24 pm • 3 0 • view
1000% accurate.
jul 24, 2025, 1:37 pm • 3 0 • view
Will my 3 dollar donation fix this shit show?
jul 24, 2025, 1:26 pm • 0 0 • view
— and/or are in denial that their role is nullified if they can’t/won’t do those things. — and/or are racing to the end of their career (while trying to extend and extend it) like they’re running a red light…
jul 24, 2025, 4:43 pm • 0 0 • view
And some people without power don't want an honest assessment of where we are politically because it feels too scary so they use words like "doomerism" but in reality you can't fight something that you haven't accurately diagnosed. All in all it's a clusterfuck.
jul 24, 2025, 1:20 pm • 385 54 • view
a lot of the times I talked about the Guatemalan Civil War, the disappearances, I got a lot of racist pushback. My dad said to me we are living through it again. It's a little quieter now on my timeline.
jul 24, 2025, 1:56 pm • 19 1 • view
"...it feels too scary so they use words like "doomerism" but in reality you can't fight something that you haven't accurately diagnosed." ☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️
aug 4, 2025, 10:46 pm • 0 0 • view
This has been the absolutely most infuriating thing to me right now!
jul 24, 2025, 1:43 pm • 1 0 • view
If we keep pretending we don't have cancer, maybe it'll go away by itself. Chemotherapy is scary and horrible.
jul 24, 2025, 1:31 pm • 33 0 • view
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jul 24, 2025, 1:23 pm • 4 0 • view
Oh, they know.... Middle America is hoping that the people with the least to lose (in terms of material possessions) will step up and save their asses. Once they lose most of what they own or are directly threatened, they will act. Until then no sale.
jul 24, 2025, 1:25 pm • 10 1 • view
👍You have tapped the deep wellspring of greed and selfishness that is “real America.”
jul 24, 2025, 4:06 pm • 4 0 • view
Cowards. All of them.
jul 24, 2025, 1:23 pm • 2 1 • view
There are even bizarre examples like Jeffries, who both refuses to offer an honest assessment but also belligerently and vocally refuses to do anything about it. Just such an own goal.
jul 24, 2025, 2:27 pm • 2 0 • view
Truth
jul 24, 2025, 9:12 pm • 0 0 • view