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Parent Post: How does someone run for office in todays time without selling out?
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seathesailor
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5/8/2025, 12:50:02 AM
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100% @maurice I said earlier on some random thread on here that **"the spark of revolution is going to be snuffed if the tinder is wet with apathy"** Community building is the overlooked element of necessary social capital that I think our whole social engineered post-WW2 consumerism rather than producerism mindset of keeping with the Jones' is designed for. I think about the elders in the mainstreet mom & pop community I grew up in the 90s and they were Titans of women and men of competence, character, class, and capability. We have too many adult children right now in our country more worried about the ball games than how their kids, and their neighbors kids are going to survive a potential WW3 scenario if India/Pakistan Russia/Ukraine Israel/Iran go at it... or hell if population collapse &/or inflation just crashes the healthcare/welfare/eldercare economy. I don't think the U.S. has been contentiously failed (historically). Certainly, I would agree with you in the past few decades of our entire adult lives in GWOT or later Cold War, but the Eisenhower years and preWW1 had a lot of promise. I like to look at things like we living now have our role to play in making things better for future generations, and what a fantastically troubled time for us to have to fight our battles. If we think our parents (certainly the boomers) failed then we've got to not do as they did, and make things better. Also yeah, we need leaders that can fix things and make a living independent of lawyering as parasites on society. I'd vote for plumbers, farmers, engineers, merchant sailors, HVAC techs and repairmen over the liberal artist that dominate America's present managerial class - but I think it's going to take more blood sweat and tears than voting.
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