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"It's hilarious that people still think the Democratic Party cares about winning elections. That's not its job, children. That's not why the Democratic Party exists. The Democratic Party exists to kill leftward progress in the world's most powerful nation. That's all it cares about doing."

Yet "leftists" continue to vote for Democrats. The Democratic Party needs to be completely and utterly destroyed and replaced by a party responsive to its base. No more super-delegates. No more propaganda against antiwar candidates.

In the 1854-55 Congressional elections, eight (count 'em) different political parties elected at least one House member. The GOP was the 5th largest delegation, with 13 members. Neither Democrats nor Whigs had an outright majority, so a No Nothing was elected Speaker of the House. People keep saying they want a 3rd choice, but few people ever vote for one.

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Yes…. I will send an article to someone that reveals things they’d never hear on the evening news…. cognitive dissonance often freezes them from responding and delving into the implications, the layers and layers of implications. They just move on in their heads toward the safety of cognitive ease.

The times when they do react and briefly allow for the fact that things are that bad, if I sense they can handle it I’ll tell them that things are actually much much worse… but if their frame of reference for “worse” has been the election of an authoritarian buffoon then I realize I can’t force people to see clearly….

I have to remain in the state of presence so that I can continue to see clearly… and so that I can accept that greater devolution and dissolution and collapse will likely be required before greater openings for the growing consciousness can emerge…. and from this expanded consciousness, this presence, where I surrender to the movement of dissolution, I am also permitting life’s other movement to grow in me, the impulse to care and help and spread awareness.

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