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Shitty, isn’t it?
This whole thing—the pandemic, the mass death, the ongoing threat to democracy from an inept, lazy, and authoritarian-loving political party.
Ha-ha, oh god.
Congress is at a standstill, and the body is unlikely to get anything of importance done before the summer recess this August. Congress members will, of course, hobble back in front of the cameras this September to tell us that the other party has been slacking off, not doing shit for their constituents, while laying out why they’re the party best equipped to save the day.
Although we know the biggest hurdle to Congressional progress right now are two Democratic senators hellbent on destroying democracy in favor of personal prosperity.
It doesn’t have to be like this, though, ya know? An inept, ineffectual government with zero qualms to dole out dollars to a handful of megacorps that are eager to lay off thousands while board members buy new boats on the taxpayers’ dime should not be the norm.
Don’t get me wrong, being an informed and an engaged democratic participant isn’t easy. It’s an exhausting endeavor that could even be dangerous in today’s toxic political hellscape. Railing against the system is tiring.
But fixing it requires the will to work.
No, we’re not lazy, apathetic to the politics affecting our country, but we’ve been beaten down by the system that’s intentionally slowing progress for profit year after year after year. It’s no surprise so many have disengaged.
We’re subsidizing our suicide while Republicans rig the political system to stymie the government from working for the people, and we must ask more from the politicians who understand the danger facing our country and who will hold the others to account.
A democracy takes diligence, and diligence takes time.
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But our ever-connected, instant-result world makes working for change difficult when you can get weed delivered to your door in 15 minutes so you can toke down before rewatching the Snyder Cut for the sixth time. And you can’t blame those who chose to check out.
Bureaucracy has made the reward of public service near impossible to receive, though it works wonders for people complicit in schemes designed to deprive the citizen of a duty-bound government that works for all people and not just the party, lobbyists, and donors.
It won’t be easy. We’ve been dug quite a hole, but there’s still sunlight. Those same powerful forces that got us to this point remain entrenched, and they will not yield quietly.
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