Our future survival as a species depends on teaching ourselves and our kids to find the reasonable line to ride between getting prematurely excited and letting our emotions getting exploited, and sinking into absolute, checked-out, fucking apathy and this is a tall order because the majority of Americans, and much of the larger developed world, fall into one of those two camps and few people in between, because measured, thoughtful responses and appropriate emotional investment and momentum is just not as easy to rally behind and make memes about.
Nothing inspires apathy like the 40 years of Democrats doing the wrong thing and making it so food and shelter are cost-prohibitive for tens of millions.
I’ll believe Mamdani is the real deal when he shows me. It’s unreasonable to expect Democrats to do the things they say they’re going to do.
Our future survival as a species depends on teaching ourselves and our kids to find the reasonable line to ride between getting prematurely excited and letting our emotions getting exploited, and sinking into absolute, checked-out, fucking apathy and this is a tall order because the majority of Americans, and much of the larger developed world, fall into one of those two camps and few people in between, because measured, thoughtful responses and appropriate emotional investment and momentum is just not as easy to rally behind and make memes about.
Nothing inspires apathy like the 40 years of Democrats doing the wrong thing and making it so food and shelter are cost-prohibitive for tens of millions.
I’ll believe Mamdani is the real deal when he shows me. It’s unreasonable to expect Democrats to do the things they say they’re going to do.