@SenTimKaine I checked and you aren’t up for reelection for five years. Why not do the bold thing? Your seat is safe. If you can’t take a risk now, you never will. If you can’t stand for what is right now, you never will. November 2030 can’t come soon enough.
I don't know how you can watch billionaires openly manipulate the public on a mass scale never before seen in human history and think the real problem is that Democrats didn't try to convince people hard enough.
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.
The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.
Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.
Pharma buys off Congress. No action on drug prices.
Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
I don’t wish to sound apocalyptic about this, but one has the sense that at present our society is simultaneously characterized by wildly disproportionate accountability for trivial transgressions and zero accountability for profound institutional failure.
Most of these rules were designed with double standards that keep Black people under control.
White people get to brandish their guns everywhere.
We don't.
They get to arm their teenagers with guns.
We don't.
They get to claim self-defense when they kill people.
We don't.
They painted BLM instead of defunding the police, clapped for essential workers instead of raising the wage, and made Juneteeth a holiday instead of making sure Black folks can vote. Always a symbolic victory instead of a material change.