I know I'm being a tedious fucking bore today but the way people just accept as eternal and permanent the state of our obviously wrecked political system. It really plays up the near-total lack of political education we get in America, especially as it concerns imperialism and capitalism
The US government has changed in a major way three times and in a minor way in half a dozen. Governments have changed all over the world hundreds of times. No country's government is unchangeable. Describing a factual but temporary, contingent way as political 'reality' is a dispiriting error
You don't have to imagine how this ends. Everyone told the abolitionists that their position was too extreme and the reality was either partial slavery or total slavery. The German government figured it was better to let the Nazis into their fragile coalition than listen to the communists.
Everything is forever until it isn't. Every form of government, and every government that employed that form, assumed it would go on forever. None of them lasted. The FIRST STEP is to start believing a broken system doesn't have to last forever, and then doing what you can to stop supporting it.
It's hard. You may lose. You may never see the system replaced, and if you do, the replacement might be bad or short-lived. But if you don't try, that's YOU not doing anything. You're just letting bosses push you around and make you think you can't win, just accept bad or worse every time. I won't.
