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In reply to the discussion: Has the Left Surrendered? - BillMoyers.com [View all]jtuck004
(15,882 posts)even though the cheese has been sold. They are in a place where they can either starve or go on a journey to find a place with new cheese, but that is a much, much harder choice than people realize.
Think about it in terms of why an abused spouse would stay, despite the pain. And millions upon millions do.
It's very hard to recognize that the hitching post that used to anchor you is now an island, and you are just drifting. You can see it every day if you look. It's much less frightening to just walk around the island in ever smaller circles and keep oneself busy, rather than recognize that one is now a castaway and should work on their own rescue.
It makes no difference what the Republicans do. Our two corporation rule will continue until either enough of those who care more about their neighbors than they do about the party walk away, or the Democrats no longer have anything to give away to their corporate masters. At that point they start to lose. Then a change will be forced on everyone. Whether that is good or bad, or even likely, is hard to tell, but given that it would take an effort along the lines of mobilizing for WWII to change, it's more likely people will continue in the servitude that gets them a lazyboy and cable, and spend the rest of their lives paying the debt that keeps the corporations doing very, very well.