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betsuni

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3. Selling the myth of the utopian savior. The obsession with replacing Schumer/Jeffries with a savior

Reply to bigtree (Original post)

Sat Mar 21, 2026, 01:31 AM

Mar 21

who will change everything is ridiculous.

The myth is pessimism coupled with future optimism. Assumptions:

1. Pessimism: Things are bad and getting worse.
Someone running for president in 2015 (not Republican) said "This country faces more serious problems today than at any time since the Great Depression" -- so Obama entered office with the catastrophe of the Great Recession and people couldn't get insurance because of previous conditions and only made things worse? Apparently Obama/Democrats were worse than WWII and the Vietnam war and everything else that happened.

2. Optimism: Some have tried to save us but were stopped by the establishment. Now is the time.
The People's Revolution will destroy the establishment and take over from the mean old corrupt Democrats. The savior will come, passionate and authentic! Utopia!.

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I don't know why Sen. Schumer stays in his position [View all] bigtree Mar 21 OP

Minority leaders stick around through the slings and arrows so that when the RockRaven Mar 21 #1

he's been around long enough to satisfy his own ambitions bigtree Mar 21 #2

Selling the myth of the utopian savior. The obsession with replacing Schumer/Jeffries with a savior betsuni Mar 21 #3

No one ever wins the blame game. littlemissmartypants Mar 21 #4

I prefer senators that don't take AIPAC money. Intractable Mar 21 #5

+1 "I have many jobs as [Senate] leader... leftstreet Mar 21 #9

With so many people rationalizing his torpid leadership, you'd think that he'd love to stay Orrex Mar 21 #6

Schumer is not a wartime consigliere SocialDemocrat61 Mar 21 #7

Yeah poor Schumer. choie Mar 21 #8

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