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How do you propose we even begin to do that? So help me, if you say "vote," I swear I'm going to roll my eyes so hard at my phone!
Seriously. They're propped up and kept in place by their constituents. Those people can barely breath involuntarily without wasting brain power. This is a lost cause.
If you can tell me, a resident of Washington, how I can vote against MTG or Bobo from the top left corner of the USA, I'll buy you a pizza.
Unfortunately you answered your own question. There has to be some long term significant efforts to vote in progressive legislators and oust these traitors. Right now it's too close to accomplish anything. There has to be a hard shift to the left and we need to see a big Democrat majority in the house and senate.
Right now that's not happening in any one election. But as the country becomes more liberal, which trends seem to suggest is what will happen, there needs to be a mobilization of those numbers to get more millenials and more Gen z leaders into positions where they can make sweeping reforms.
Right now both of those generations are comically underrepresented and the boomers hold a comically over representation in congress. The boomers still play politics like it's 1950. It used to be that both sides had honorable representatives with few extremists that could work together to pass legislation. That's all gone. Politics have changed. Now because of the razor thin margins a few extremists or DINOs can effectively control the country. It's insanity.
So unfortunately vote vote vote is the key. You may be in a liberal stronghold but never take that for granted. Virginia was pretty soundly blue for the past few years but the virginia dems got complacent and we are one election away from passing abortion bans and all the other chicken shit right wing legislation that will undo all the progress we made in this state.
You miss my point. I cannot vote outside my district. My vote is valid here alone and only at the local time level.
Capitalism won this war. Ironically, we can't buy our way out of this.
No I didn't. My point is that even if you are outside of one of these problem areas your job is to ensure your locality doesn't become a problem area. Complacency gives them an in and if they get their foot in the door they'll prop it open and let all their fellow traitors flood in behind them.
You could donate money. It works outside your state. Volunteer your time at the national level. I understand if you don’t want to do those things, but it’s not entirely outside your control.
There's nothing stoping you from canvassing outside your district.
Had the January 6th insurrectionists not chosen such a dumbass reason for doing what they did, they'd probably have gotten more support and we might have gotten some real necessary change to our political systems.
But I'll be damned if they weren't the dumbest people on earth in the dumbest riot.
Voting isn't going to fix all our country's broken systems.