AdamSmith

I was a somewhat Sanders fan, and then big on Warren. But now I think an implication of what you say is right: only Uncle Joe can bring us back together again. Let us pray

Returning (off-thread ) to the food topic, good God almighty. How difficult is it to just buy a few fresh ingredients and make a nice lunch yourself? The crap that comes out of even the ‘best’ fast-food joints...

’...and airs them on the generous terrace.’

I meant the opposite of what you interpreted. Sorry to have said it so confusidly.

Where are ours? The Malebranche (Italian: [ˌmaleˈbraŋke]; "Evil Claws")[1] are the demons in the Inferno of Dante's Divine Comedy who guard Bolgia Five of the Eighth Circle (Malebolge). They figure in Cantos XXI, XXII, and XXIII. Vulgar and quarrelsome, their duty is to force the corrupt politicians (barrators) to stay under the surface of a boiling lake of pitch. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malebranche_(Divine_Comedy)

@Latbear4blk, participating in a boycott is a big personal nuisance and disruption to everyday life. If you do it, you evidently believe in the cause. Whether anything comes of it is obviously unknown until after.

We, the People... Yeah, right.

And for rejecting confirmation bias and blind reinforcement thinking.

I know I come to the situation with way too much white privilege. But I have used that to throw myself (to repeat again) in the path of literal physical danger when it could help.

How concretely do we make change? What actions?

Maggie Thatcher was likewise a chemist by profession. She knew that if the equations didn’t balance, the thing would blow up. So she put through the UK economy some extremely harsh medicine that in the long term worked.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/14/skywalker-window-democrats-trump-death-star-david-litt-book-obama

OK, how?

Totally agree. 10’percent are woke but the rest are asleep at the switch. My previous post was a hope actually, not a forecast alas.

Progress comes in increments. I was born in 1959. We got a little bit done. Then you do some more. And then again. Nein?

I think they will swing the next election cycle.

Just from the random act of riding with, and talking with, young Lyft and Uber drivers, I have very positive feelings about the awareness and societal sensibilities of 25-and-under people today.

When I visit a place I then find I don’t like, I just don’t come back. All this crying & moaning seems such a misuse of effort.

May one suggest this discussion has gotten just a bit ridiculous?

Weirdest thing is how they shit on their own toilet seats.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ME2ieE_QPBs

A hilariously apt name given his habits! So to speak.

There is a lot of fact also that much of it traces back to the root poisons of free-market capitalism. Slavery, all kind of economic unavailability of opportunity, on and on. Every vote counts. But even that is being undermined today.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Francis_Spellman_1946.jpg/317px-Francis_Spellman_1946.jpg