No one, no single student, parent, political party, organization, senator or president is going to save us. We have to save us by all doing our part and working together to address the challenges of our time.
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I would say I’m glad I’m not on Elon Musks comms team but I think it’s pretty clear at this point he fired all of them.
I was younger- I considered becoming an aerospace engineer. It was fucking amazing seeing spacex rockets from my house literally come back from space and land themselves.
It sucks to see how much of the hard work so many employees have done to innovate in space travel and other areas is being erased more and more by Elon’s stupid tweets.
Fuck war and using the people as Canon fodder to protect the wealth of men that never gave a fuck about us.
Our real enemy are the men who arm both sides of conflict, lobby for war, kill millions then profit enormously from the blood of the innocent.
Then guess who has to pay for it? WE DO.
Either through taxes and/or inflation and massive debt from + the interest that we’ll be paying off for decades after the corrupt men that started that conflict are long gone.
This would be a lot easier if we had a proportional form of government but we don’t. We have one that’s always been controlled by corporations- if we want to get that money out of politics we have to expand our majority and pass massive campaign finance reform and much more.
Have have 0 chance of doing that or passing comprehensive voter rights protections if we lose our majorities because we refuse to pass legislation and deliver for voters.
We can either sit on the sidelines, let the perfect be the enemy of the good and get absolutely nothing done.
Or we can work with the majority we have to get legislation passed while working to expand our majority to make better legislation possible.
We never would have got gun laws passed in our very red legislature in Florida if we refused to support legislation that didn’t include an assault weapons ban.
Lives have been saved because the laws we passed- had we refused to come to the table people would be dead right now.
One way to completely screw yourself and everyone on your side electorally is to refuse to pass legislation that you aren’t 100% happy with.
Pass the legislation, deliver for voters and work to get more people who agree with you elected.
Studying history has made me realize the system isn’t broken it’s doing exactly what it was made to do.
It was never about helping people, it was about making a few men richer and using the 99% as Canon fodder to protect their wealth.
The system only ever helps people when the that wealth is threatened (typically by war) so they need us to buy into the system more- they do so by giving us a tiny amount more of say, money and resources.
We shouldn’t increase the military budget one cent until we get universal healthcare, free college, eradicate homelessness, massively reduce poverty and address climate change.
We just have to prioritize feeding the American people instead of war.
Democrats, Republicans and nearly all elected officials of every party are puppets of the military industrial complex. There are jobs in every congressional district that depend on the war machine.
As a result there is basically nothing we can do to change that until we decrease military spending that will cost jobs in every congressional district- which is why it’s practically impossible to cut spending.