Our favourite president, Degrowth Don.

Not really, not even for long enough to enjoy the joke. The push to mow down the US national parks is still easy to recall.

No. This isn’t an oopsie.
Not this time nor the last 7500.

Spare me the hypocritical posturing, and if you want to convince someone try offering solid points rather than making up unflattering stories about what or why they believe.

If you only follow what you supposedly already understand about capitalism to its logical conclusions, whatever pseudo-solution you’re alluding to evaporates.

Without revolution there’s a guarantee of societal collapse and possibly extinction.
Exponential growth is not negotiable under capitalism, despite the literal mathematical certainty of where it leads.

It’s not just a poor choice of a contemporary ruling class with an abundance of hubris eschewing long term planning, it’s baked into the foundational mechanics. Capitalism can’t function without it.

I’ve been watching for over a decade. I’ve fallen for the same trap, which I could have avoided if only I had read more about what came before. You on the other hand need only not forget recent years.

I’ve watched the US left “resist” all the way into ever deepening fascism. Watched fascists cheerfully kill for their beliefs while the resistance meekly dies for theirs.
Watched the squad get absorbed by the establishment. Watched the idea of not actively supporting a genocide be dismissed as radical. Watched bipartisan support for banning the platform people were using to learn about the atrocities. Watched the DNC fall over itself looking for excuses as to why they lost to the worst candidate in history.

And I’ve watched the zeitgeist lag unfathomably far behind what anyone with a heart, brain, and eyes should already understand even if, like me, they lived most of their lives in political ignorance.

That’s the exact same play the US left has fallen for over and over again.

The fundamental difference is that the tea party takeover was billionaire approved and astroturfed.
Entryism to the Democratic party on the other hand is a no go from the party’s sponsors.

There are squabbling factions within the ruling class, but they are united against us. The overton window they define will always be far to the right of what the masses find acceptable (insofar as they are not stupefied by fascistic dreck and capitalist realism).

As for bloodshed, it’s happening all the time at a scale that makes knowledge of it a moral hazard.
You’re just insulated from it; much of it is omitted from news cycles or hidden behind layers of obfuscation.

Let’s take some “uncontroversial” examples: Tens of thousands of people die in the US each year from denied health care claims. Mass shootings are now so common they almost never make the news. Three quarters of a million people in the US are homeless. Many die of exposure (often after police clear out their camps right before a cold snap). Just because they weren’t stabbed or shot doesn’t mean they aren’t victims of violence.

The Socdems in Germany wanted to avoid bloodshed, too.

[The reformist] admits that the path of “bloody revolution” now becomes inevitable-after fifteen years of suffering, after the maximum strengthening of the class enemy, and therefore now involving far heavier sacrifice and bloodshed, that the so-called “peaceful” path is thus proved to involve in the end, not the avoidance of bloodshed, but the maximum of bloodshed.

The “trying something new” isn’t to keep falling for the same Democratic party snare over and over again.
The party exists to prevent you from “trying something new”.

You only hear “give up” because your imagination has been constrained to action within bounds that are acceptable to the ruling class. When people tell you “this isn’t going far enough” you somehow hear “do nothing”.

Your mind is shackled by crimestop.

Building power outside of the Democratic party is one of the barest prerequisites to getting things moving in the right direction.

But hey, even if we’re condemned to roll the same boulder up the same hill over and over again,

We’re not. The planet is running out of time.
Since you’re unwilling to learn from those who have made the same mistakes before you, please just pay attention to what happens next.

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting bourgeois politicians to represent you.

That said please forge ahead with all your might and make the newest object lesson all the clearer.

Installation instructions are often terse with a bunch of assumed knowledge left implicit.

It becomes a sidequest needing an investment of an unknown amount of time with no guarantee that you’ll have a working program at the end of it.

Man pages can be just as bad, like the developer was ticking a box.

I think it’ll be the moment a good chunk of people remember realising the Democratic party can’t be reformed, yeah.

Oh you meant-

You’d be a fool to trust the US again for generations, regardless of appearances.

I wonder though about the step from hearing to acting.

I once auditory hallucinated a single syllable as I was waking up, like someone speaking loudly, almost shouting from right in my face. That was disconcerting enough. There’s a visceral element to it that’s not just a conversation with an uninvited guest.

Despite the hallucinations themselves by no means implying insanity, it’s easy to imagine them wearing you down psychologically if they’re a regular occurrence. Anecdotes about them range all the way from harmless to anxiety inducing sensory overload.

You pierced the veil and showed them the writhing eldritch tentacles of the machine and they really said “The machine is getting better :)”

Watching these reruns while the ecological clock runs out is a bit worse than annoying.

I think they actually can’t implement medicare for all, because healthcare in the US is so far gone that M4A would undermine the entire system.

How long now have people been told it’s impossible? How much the relief when profit-seeking is removed from the equation? How many people will then wonder what other lies they’ve taken for granted?

Yeah, it’s not happening without a revolution. And I don’t just say that because I would prefer humanity survive its own stupidity. The way healthcare is organised in the US is so far gone that

M4A would undermine the entire system.

Huh…you told us this was impossible, but here it is, and it actually works far better for the absence of profit-seekers.
Now a terrible burden of socioeconomic pressure has been lifted. Wait…what else have you been lying to us about? What assumptions have I grown up with that were not my own?

They the Democrats, not one particular head of the hydra.

Whoever replaces them, if they even bother with the theatre.

After seeing them frame going after their supposed political enemies for the illegal bad shit they’ve done as childish and unnecessary so soon after they were voted in I wouldn’t be shocked if they simply didn’t even address this.

You can and should.

A little deliberate compartmentalisation can be healthy. If you can’t make yourself forget for a day, try hours or even minutes. Set yourself some time in which if you think of these things you say to yourself “not now”.

That people would still look at it and call it messing up or fumbling is why they’ve been able to run the same scam for decades.