The moment of clarity is not comfortable.
You have been a spectator in the imperial capital, fed division, kept entertained, given enough comfort to prevent revolt and enough anxiety to prevent solidarity.
The culture war was your circus.
The debt was your chain.
The election was your ritual of consent, performed every four years to produce the feeling of agency without the substance of it.
Seeing this clearly does not feel like liberation.
It feels, at first, like grief.
Because it means the story you were told, that you lived in a functioning republic, that your vote was sovereign, that the system was imperfect but responsive, that working within it was meaningful, was more comfortable than the truth.
The truth is not comfortable.
The truth is that the hands operating the foreign stage and the domestic stage are the same hands.
That the regime change exported abroad and the culture war consumed at home are products of the same factory.
You were not a citizen deliberating.
You were an audience. Managed. Contained. Useful.
Seeing it clearly is the beginning.
But only the beginning.
What you do with the clarity is the question that actually matters.
And that question has no comfortable answer.
@OVOhitman@anthonyzenkus AOC endorsed Biden while he was committing a genocide and loosing his marbles AND voted against cutting 1/2 billion $ of funding for Israel while they were dropping US bombs on children every day. Maybe have some fucking standards.
@MikeRogersForMI Protect families...Is this guy for real?? ......does that include children...don't you roll with the Trump i.e. The Epstein class?
YOU NEED TO STAY THE HELL AWAY FROM CHILDREN!!!!
@MikeRogersForMI We should be building using renewable power sources like electric and get with the times instead sell dated gas powered tech. Electric cars are far superior, Hormouz proof, healthier, quieter and competitive. Why should anyone vote for someone who doesn't understand that?
@ZaidJilani At this point they're just testing the water to see how the candidates are received and if they can shoehorn them in. That said that they are pushing Newsom & Harris really does tell you the Democrats have not fundamentally changed. Capitalist hacks or bust!!
@vonLichtenfeld@nxt888 Loosing the War because you decided to retreat does not mean you lost the war 'because' you decided to retreat. It means you lost the War because the opposition forced that decision upon you.
@FurkanGozukara@grok It means Trump doesn't understand that Netanyahu needs the war to continue to both avoid facing the Israeli justice system and regain election because from an Israeli right wing perspective Trumps support is of no value if doesn't come with continuation of the war.
@textosmoontw She's not turning on Israel, she's posturing against Netanyahu & Co. This has always been the card Democrats have been preparing to play if the public turn against Israel, blame it all on the current Administration; burn them and take AIPACs money to support the next.