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The Democrats won’t really challenge anything unless there’s campaign reform, which’d ensure them needing to rely on votes. Beyond that change will take people dying to slam into public consciousness. From health/climate change/gun control/labor/race issues which are obviously resolvable or while protesting... and then *if* the media allows the horrors to be big stories.
But who wants to be assured death protesting especially if the media conveniently turns away?
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As part of getting older, I want to accept that I won’t need to storm the gates of Heaven and be remembered for decades, to have made a difference in my life. And I want to accept too that something will take me out and it probably won’t be quick or painless. But the idea that I’ll be one of the personally unremembered millions who die of disease, exposure or purposeful genocide, still makes me pucker.
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@Leucrotta That's a root issue, unquestionably - both the big US parties can basically take their votes for granted, relieving them of the /difficulty/ of having to genuinely work for change. Just as in the UK, the wretched First Past the Post system keeps smaller parties at bay, at least at the national level.
And let's not even start on the deeply disturbing trend toward "post truth", and the Repubs now viewing a free (if supine) press as an enemy of the state.. O.o
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The only more positive outcome I can imagine is if there’s some sort of huge change in consciousness- say among Millennials or younger outnumbering a declining number of ancient obstructionists. And even then that too is a miracle of sorts.
I certainly don’t think anything that would drive real change will be something *I’ll* survive, though of course everyone wants to survive and thrive.