AOC: Oh look, someone took a photo of what my life is like debating Republicans in committee each wk

[jaxexpat]

147. I got it. Had to turn down my hearing aid though.

Ears still ringing.
If there's one thing I've learned in my 68 years, it's that logic will outlast passion in the world of results. I saw the betrayal of the hope embodied in Jimmy Carter. The betrayal was from GOP, conservative, 1%er interests as they bought Washington, D.C. and access to the treasure chests there. It was a relatively quiet coup, really. They just did their nefarious work diligently and consistently. They've been experimenting with the government altering drug of POWER ever since. They initially worked at it like a project but these days it has become recreational madness.

To pull the reins in on these fools, we just need to learn, learn, study, study, know, know the facts as hints stick out on the peripheral of contemporary experience. Not relying on feelings as evidence, but instead, acknowledging the premierity of observation.

Like: it's not the words of the protester, no matter how profound, that will change the trajectory of history. It's education, because education is unstoppable. Educating the people is hard but it is the only means with result, because fact based concepts are the foundations for progress. It is knowledgeable, individual voters who will seek and elect politicians who work toward the will of the electorate. And if those politicians don't produce or become jaded, those same voters will fire them and find someone who is more up to the task of projecting their vision of destiny.

But there is a rub to it. People will not look for facts and will not remove failed legislators, if they think they're personal fortunes are already doing well. And "doing well" is always defined as doing better than anybody else. How many people, as the corona virus news was coming for Wu-Han, noticed that the back-view, the periphery of the broadcasts, showed a city which compared to any large American city. Maybe even cleaner and more modern, more "western" than most midwestern American cities. How many were able to realize that their world view of bamboo huts and water buffalo working the fields was totally wrong? And where were the oppressive, failed communist overseers holding them back into desperate poverty? Education, education, education. Keep it up.