No One Gives a F*ck How You Feel

A strategy

You can be as upset as you want, and tweet about it, while our democracy dribbles away. No one cares.

You can wring your hands and wail. No one cares. In fact, I think they enjoy it.

You can surround the Supreme Court and camp out on people’s lawns. No one cares.

You can yell and break windows. Nothing changes.

We have learned over the past few years that none of it creates change. Then what works?

Voting

Obama had an immense grassroots power base that he dismantled once elected. We really believed him, too. Instead, the banks got bailed out and no one from the banks went to prison. Thousands of people were thrown out of their homes due to a mismanaged mortgage program.

The risk in any election is that the next guy who rides into office with immense popular support will do the same thing. Rep. Jayapal, leader of the Progressive Caucus, agreed to split Build Back Better from the Infrastructure Package, and effectively killed Build Back Better. American business got their bailout,…