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[BainsBane]

39. It's a lost cause

There refuse to consider discussion or mobilization around political or social reform. The only thing that interests them, i have discovered the hard way, is defeating Hillary Clinton. When I raised the issue of working to pass a constitutional amendment for Public financing, they refused to talk about anything but their opposition to Clinton. They refuse to consider what is necessary to bring about substantive change. They just want to keep a single woman from becoming president and target ordinary Democratic voters. many women, people of color, and LGBT, as the enemy. They made clear they have no interest in changing the campaign finance system that entirely subverts democracy. All they want to do is keep Clinton from being elected. It's impossible to find common ground for organizing for political and social change with people who don't want it. This site is a place to emote, piss and moan. It's impossible to promote a positive agenda because the Clinton derangement syndrome colors everything to the point where they can talk or think about nothing else.

Part of me wishes they'd put the final nail in Clinton and move on, but then I know they will only move on to something every bit as narrowly focused and inconsequential (eg. another member of the political elite). When people only care about individual politicians and not underlying economic, political and social problems that produce the government they so despise, there is nothing that can be done. Any real activism has to be organized elsewhere. The place has become a waste land.