Which will mean, if she wins, ruthlessly attacking the Harris administration at every turn because she has given no sign she is opposed to the oligarchy you point to. Harris represents the problem that gives rise to the Trump problem.

Nonfiction readers have a penchant for self flagellation maybe

Biden? Joseph Robinette Biden? He’s who you’re looking at?

With due respect it’s not binary. Trump-Harris is binary, yes, but we live in the world, which is an open system. If we withhold our votes from the Democratic Party over this, maybe we’ll see improvement. Depends I guess if you think Trump will really “end democracy” - which is a complicated claim.

Can they be reformed? Maybe! But not within the current political and social context. We need a powerful attack on the center of power - the corporate-political mafia. Siding with the Democratic Party right now is a dead end, just kicking the can down the road.

Of course there are great journalists doing good work and good judges and professors, but the institutions do not deserve our confidence and we absolutely cannot side with them if we want to escape this spiral. Sorry, they have to be remade - it’s too late!

Yeah Trump is a mobster with casually fascist ambitions, but both parties cheerlead the multinationals that have worked for decades to undercut democratic governance - and media, educational, political and judicial institutions have all been hollowed out as a result. It’s not just republicans.

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That is absolutely true. But “stop looking for someone to blame” can also easily collapse into “your suffering is just the way of the world - accept it.”

Leftist thought identifies a class of individuals who use their disproportionate power in the system to bend that system to unjustly serve their interests. You can’t change the system without addressing those with the power to manipulate it. But it’s not “reasonable” to believe such a class exists.

It’s kind of a brilliant tactic because we don’t really know where the incomprehensible bottom is, so it might be anywhere the experts say. The most common version is just - those people are inherently evil. But it also might be: it’s foolhardy to speculate on who blew up that pipeline.

Come on. When Democratic Party elites intervene to stymie the will of their electorate it’s a form of rigging, regardless of how long running the tradition, and acting like anyone who points this out is just mad their guy didn’t win is the sort of aw shucks faux ignorance that supports it.

Thanks - it’s legitimately really fun