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Some things we can attribute to the Democrats:

- Repeal of 1999 Glass-Stegall act, leading directly to the 2008 crisis

- Biden’s support for fossil fuel (Willow Project)

- Obama and Biden’s continued expansions of the mass surveillance state

- Prosecution of whistleblowers under Obama

- Fusion centers and protest surveillance

- Bailing out the investment banks in 2008. Refusing to prosecute bankers.

- The Libya regime change

- Support for Saudi in the Yemen war leading to humanitarian crisis

- Drone warfare including extrajudicial killing of American citizens

- Guantanamo Bay. It’s still open.

- Continued material support for the Palestinian genocide (Biden)

- Sanctions on Cuba

- Obama’s “pivot to Asia” to begin a Cold War with China

- Support for many dangerous Latin American right-wing governments

- the continued rise of wealth inequality

I agree Democrats are still better than Trump. That’s why I described them as the lesser of two evils. I also think it’s rational to support Democrats and other factions against the Republicans - without losing sight of the big picture.

> good luck with that

The billionaire class can only see its own narrow interests and actively engenders destruction in the long run. The fossil fuel industry is going to run us into the ground with climate change. The billionaires are instituting a dictatorship that has a long term goal of war with a China (a nuclear power). The long term plan of many of these billionaires is to live on seasteads and in luxury bunkers - or maybe inhabit a dead planet.

Society is undergoing a deep crisis. You speak with confidence that citizens united won’t be overturned. The fact is society is going to be overturned. It’s already being overturned. The future holds for us outcomes such as mass migration and death due to climate change, political instability, nuclear war. These are the outcomes everyone is faced with. We are collectively choosing our future - and the choice is between self-destruction under the reins of these narrow interests - or the divestment of these interests in the spirit of solidarity and democracy.



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