If you're as frustrated as I am about alleged dem "infighting", here's a clue as to cause: https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/who-exactly-is-trying-to-push-biden
@FinnegansWhacked Finally something I've read that makes absolute sense.
@dauphin87 @FinnegansWhacked We listen too much to people with money. We're owned lock, stock and barrel when you think about it. Everything we do, consume etc can be traced back to big money. They own everything, even our health.
@SaltyVeruca @dauphin87 Not always.
@FinnegansWhacked @dauphin87 Largely, I think so. Our social media, our product consumption with unbridled corporate greed, our healthcare that I mentioned, our education system (which has always had an agenda), our work/life balance via capitalism, our entertainment culture, our advertising. our banking..even "independent" influencers are hired. We disagree which is fine. We can do that.
@SaltyVeruca @dauphin87 There is still room in your argument to agree with "not always," with your opening, "largely, I think so." We do agree on points, but I also believe "we" do not have to be tethered as much we are to these various agencies. I've been amused by a graffiti I saw on a Storrow Drive overpass many years ago: "The urge to buy will consume you." The collective "we" has power, if "we" use it.
@FinnegansWhacked @dauphin87 Also fyi: I Largely state something with qualifiers so I don't hem myself in or insult people. What I really mean is nah I'm right. π
@FinnegansWhacked @dauphin87 I think that's true to an extent. I'd also contend when we think we have choice, we really don't. The collective we as action is a really hard thing to spur in our culture of individuality because it's the valued state of existence. I think we a culture, we'd rather whine about it. Always the cynic, though. π