“What’s funny about that is they assume my ambition is positional. They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, elected officials come and go, single payer healthcare is forever.”

  • Yuccagnocchiyaki@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    There won’t be anymore meaningful elections in the US. Just pageantry.

    Everything that we thought made our country different and agencies for “checks and balances” were just an illusion

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      3 hours ago

      It’s possible that the United States itself could collapse, and that democracy could exist in some form of whatever came after.

      But in the United States as it exists now? It’s not even the same country.