• grumpusbumpus@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    Rules don’t matter any longer in America. They only matter insofar as they’re enforced, and they’re not being enforced against the powerful.

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      1 hour ago

      Yes but low level politicians aren’t bureaucratic geniuses and they don’t have the functional support of the powerful members of the GOP, yet they are required for the running of things to happen. People won’t be engaging with Turmp and Co. they will be engaging with Nancy Nobody in district 590.

      I have absolute confidence there are plenty of average people smart enough to outmaneuver these low level GOP idiots, if they put their focus there. The battleground the average person engages on isn’t national politics, it’s local politics and the goals there are absolutely achievable if people group the fuck up already. Any new movement to take on the gop has to come from the bottom up because it requires people who don’t know how to politic, to learn to do so, and those skills are developed in the small ponds.