Thank you for pushing us where we need to go. We will keep pushing.
its absolutely fascinating that senator sanders ends his presidential campaign as the sun rises on the largest test of our institutions in modern history.
It saddens me when we treat american democracy like a rag doll on the highway in the rush hour traffic of american/globalist capitalism and then when we really need it we expect it to be there and magically work. in it’s purist form, democracy is a slow ideology. it takes so much time to build it, strengthen it and most importantly-trust it.
in terms of occam’s razor: it’s the fable of the three little pigs against the big bad wolf. what is our house made of? because straw and sticks don’t stand. only bricks do. senator sanders is a mason. he looks at hard truths and says the only way to build trust is to lay bricks. with all the partial action and apathy, with all the half truths, utter falsehoods and the cacophony of fucking noise- at the end of the day this shit just seems to be about good old fashioned right and wrong. that is what we are going to teach our kids. like senator sanders says, “it’s not about me its about us.” we will pick up the baton, senator. keep fighting.
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