@peterdaou I think innately a lot of Berners understand that this is a war for the heart and soul of this diseased nation, and the world at large.
It's hard. It's traumatizing. It's disgusting, disheartening, and discouraging.
But let me tell you this is part of the fight to save Earth.
It's hard. It's traumatizing. It's disgusting, disheartening, and discouraging.
But let me tell you this is part of the fight to save Earth.
@peterdaou I'm not comparing arguing on Twitter with fighting in the trenches in WWI. I'm a former paratrooper and a Gulf War veteran. I know the difference.
@peterdaou But I'll tell you from personal experience it was easier for me at 19 to go to Saudi Arabia and trudge through that entire war than it is to log onto Twitter at 48 and deal with elites who exist entirely to preserve a system that tears down everyone within it except the wealthy.
@peterdaou The trauma doesn't come from rudeness or insults. It's not hurt feefees and "he/she called me a BernieBro" that does it.
It's the ultimate realization that this nation hasn't truly grown past slavery and Jim Crow, from the misogyny of the old days, from the Gilded Age.
It's the ultimate realization that this nation hasn't truly grown past slavery and Jim Crow, from the misogyny of the old days, from the Gilded Age.
@peterdaou It's the realization that the white patriarchy is so embedded in the fabric of this nation that the offensive part may possibly never be truly removed and the whole cleansed.
America might not be salvageable.
That...THAT is what's so fucking traumatizing.
America might not be salvageable.
That...THAT is what's so fucking traumatizing.
@peterdaou It's the realization that people who enjoy privilege in this society will go to any length...ANY LEVEL OF EVIL...to preserve every iota of power/wealth they've sold their souls for.
People starve in the streets while the wealthy stuff $$ they'll never spend in offshore accounts.
People starve in the streets while the wealthy stuff $$ they'll never spend in offshore accounts.
@peterdaou These soulless bastards routinely make decisions that cost American lives here, at home, in America. And other, less wealthy soulless bastards enable them at every step, and fight against us tooth and nail when we try to change the system.
@peterdaou It's greed, and powerlust, and fear, and hatred, and a total lack of regard for the inherent dignity every human being possesses that drives these emotionless sharks through the waters of our society. They prey on opportunity. They delight in cruelly stealing our future.
@peterdaou It's a sickness they refuse to acknowledge or treat, and instead laud each other over how diseased they've become.
America elevates those who have no soul, holds them up as scions to be admired, revered.
America elevates those who have no soul, holds them up as scions to be admired, revered.
@peterdaou And this, all of this....this is what we pour our hearts into working against.
This is why we're angry, not because we have less than we need and the bills keep mounting.
But because this is literally killing the world while we watch, and we cannot look away.
This is why we're angry, not because we have less than we need and the bills keep mounting.
But because this is literally killing the world while we watch, and we cannot look away.
@peterdaou Once our eyes were opened, our fight became imperative. It's a need we have to struggle against this oppression for greed's sake. Against the murderous casualness with which these sharks devour our power, our futures. Our very health and well-being.
@peterdaou Now our eyes cannot shut against the constant onslaught of evil that corrupts this nation, and it hurts like hell as we struggle with other members of our own society to not just save it...but to even recognize that it's in peril at all.
This is our trauma.
This is our fight.
This is our trauma.
This is our fight.
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