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But it shouldn’t be so difficult to understand that it’s all nonsense.

Biden should know that Trump is lying in less than half a second. And Biden should know how to respond to the fascist clown.

Act like the situation is serious.

Act like we are in a Constitutional crisis.

But even when prosecuting the pres for unofficial acts nothing involved in committing any official acts can be used as evidence in court.

More realistically? Add more members to the Court so they’re the majority and then overturn it.

This will at best take a LOT of time. Congress is not famous for their speed.

At the worst it is politically impossible.

So how is this realistic?

What you said first can probably be done, even if it does break the democratic norms. This latter option seems unrealistic to me.

Bare minimum Biden needs to declare a state of emergency, a Constitutional crisis, and talk to us on TV about what his administration is doing to handle the crisis firmly and expeditiously. Anything less is irresponsible.

The people in Biden’s admin are smarter than myself. All my simpleminded self can think of is using the power of the official acts against the SCOTUS itself. If Biden’s White House has better ideas, get on TV right now, and tell us what they are and what is the White House doing about SCOTUS and the nearly unlimited expansion of the presidential powers.

Pretending we aren’t in a Constitutional crisis right now is political malpractice.

This isn’t business as usual, President Biden.

Even the superrich aren’t safe.

Not at all.

The status quo is unacceptable, and if a bit of rhetoric can jolt someone out of their slumber, it is appropriate and right.

Is it a transcendental condition of a “medium-term world you’d wish to live in” that the majority wisely chose it?

What an amazing question. God bless you and everything around you that is supportive of you.

Right now the answer is yes. I am too weak (and likely insufficiently knowledgeable) now to create my own justice for myself. So yes I need support. A lot of support.

But even when I won’t need the support, as best as I can figure myself out now, I still prefer the aesthetics of camaraderie over the aesthetics of me walking over a pile of corpses.

Bottom line, I need at least a few friends who fully understand and support me and my interests, no matter what. I enjoy spending time in solitude but I don’t want to be absolutely alone, no matter what, even if I had all the power.

I am in training right now. I won’t always be as dumb and as weak as I am now.

But, if you’ve rationalized that a minority will choose wisely and another minority will choose correctly but not wisely, then I think you don’t need broad popular support and good ideas. That’s what happens afterwards. Today, we need to be better than popular and good.

I don’t disagree.

And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right.

I am a treasure of my own world. And to me you are also a precious treasure. I want neither of us to sacrifice too soon, but let us make our own wisest decisions. Power without wisdom is blind. Wisdom without power is impotent. Let it be so.

1. Advocacy. Mouth to mouth education like what you are already doing. Too few people understand yet. We need more people with this same understanding first.

2. Direct action, and I don’t exclude anything. Protests and strikes make an impact, but they are just two forms of direct action out of infinity. Direct action means taking matters into your own hands instead of delegating.

The thing is, if you want to take the more radical forms of direct action while still staying relatively safe yourself, you need broad popular support. See #1 above.

Eventually, the primary beneficiaries and boosters of the status quo, the billionaires, will fold.

Isn’t it telling that you have to ask?

I see this dynamic in our two party system:

The governing party makes wealth inequality worse.

The difference between R’s and D’s is how quickly they sprint toward greater and greater wealth inequality.

R’s don’t even discuss economics beyond offering meaningless platitudes. R’s never use economic metrics outside national deficit and never hold themselves responsible outside cutting all the social programs. This is what they call “fiscal responsibility” (to their billionaire donors).

D’s pretend to care about economics and do use a few metrics but always deceptively. They talk about jobs gained but never the conditions of those jobs. They talk about inflation slowing but never talk about the inability of the bottom quintile to build wealth.

Thus economics is guaranteed to worsen no matter who is in power. Which when this gets bad enough, the center folds, because very few can tolerate the status quo. So people rush to political radicalism on the left and on the right, because people want “anything but THIS!”

Both parties are complicit and work together to fuck the people over.