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I feel like I'm living in a twilight zone episode. I don't think we're ever going to see an end to this and I think its going to get worse and worse and no one is going to notice until there really is no way out. I'm sick of seeing comments about voting bad / good lawmakers out / in. Clearly that doesn't work because most citizens don't give a shit because they're too stupid to understand what is happening. Even when you educate them they're so shell shocked by the news that they're willing to let the powers that be shepherd them into servitude. We're all megafucked. Just wait until trump worms his way into office and uses this to round up whomever he hates at the moment. Imagine if bush had this level of power when he made the comments about atheists not being real citizens... i'm genuinely worried about the future.

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A simplified way of looking at things is that politicans cannot simultaneously be "for the people" and above them. Perhaps way lower down on the totem pole but not in the big leagues.

As for not seeing the end of it, it's the same as TOS and software updates we receive on iOS, et al. Not many people look at the details, rather they just press OK. Attrition as an agent of change is much more effective than a full-frontal assault. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabian_strategy

> Even when you educate them they're so shell shocked by the news that they're willing to let the powers that be shepherd them into servitude. We're all megafucked.

The shell shocked attitude that's followed by complacency is exactly, "We're all megafucked," possibly in other words.

It's exactly that attitude that we need to steer away from, no matter how grim the landscape looks. That's step 1 to change.

if correcting one's attitude is step one, what is step two? voting? what real victories have been won on this front recently? and i'm not advocating for extremism nor am i advocating for complacency, the game just seems stacked with zero possibility of change.

I have recently gotten involved in local government and local community-supporting non-profits. The US as a world power and example of virtuousness seems to be on its way to the dustbin, so I am focusing on protecting/making healthy my community.

If our local community can become strong enough, we may have a chance to survive to see what the next attempt at national/federal(/world?) government might look like.

It's one of the few ways I can think of to do something positive and legal. And non-violent.

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