With this insanity.

Sticking it to the libs and winning at all costs is their motto.

I saw the full interview last night. Talarico was pitch perfect. He called out the culture war BS and focused on the reason that tactic is used is because it distracts from the richest folks continuing to take money out of everyone else's pockets that could be used to improve their lives and communities.

We cannot question our oligarchal overlords! Their excesses are the only thing that matters here in the US!

Or if you prefer a secular analogy, the barbarians are charging toward the gates. Or an opera analogy, the fat lady is warming up her voice.

They have managed to tweak our entire society to only favor them and their excesses.

They are not going anywhere until we understand the fundamental changes that have to be made in said society.

And, so far, we collectively do not seem to want this to change.

The programming worked.

But it runs in cycles. The greed of the 1920s, for example, gave rise to the financial and other reforms of the 1930s. We are in a similar period now and, I believe, will see similar reforms starting in Nov.

We just cannot stop with that, can we?

We are the greatest nation of 'can kickers' that I think has ever existed in the history of the planet.

But, I don't need perspective on this matter. (That doesn't mean I will not look for some.)

The rich are evil. This nation would be so much more if not for the greed of the rich. ALL of the rich.

The fact that this keeps happening is proof that their propaganda worked and is still working.

Because we keep on believing it. And, doing it.

We can hate anything in the US, concurrently. People have learned to compartmentalize very well. Hate your neighbor, say grace, etc… Barry nailed it.

Americans are not afraid of being woke,
They are afraid of being BROKE!

I'm happy that everyone is finally chilling about the pronoun experiment no one voted for. People can opt in or out of it at will with no judgment. Prices, health care. Focus.

He is one of the few bright spots along with Lina Khan, AOC, Mamdani etc in this bleak landscape. Pity Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and John Kerry can’t pull a Benjamin Button.

We the people, and by "we" I mean proceeds to name every US citizen (updating as more are born or killed in The Epstein War distraction.)...

We rise to their bait every time. Some group is hurt every time they do this. The trans community has suffered because of this and we could have responded in a different way to take the pressure off, but instead we unwittingly gave fuel to the fire.

We care about LGBTQ rights. We care about prices. But somehow we always pick the wrong argument. The more we defend trans people the way we do the more gas gets thrown on the fire for the culture wars.

I have a dear friend with a trans daughter. She was living a fairly normal life until the trans culture wars began. Now she is living in fear, practically in hiding. Her boyfriend has left her because he became afraid. Her doctor has been arrested and she can't find another one. Our defense of her did not help. It made the argument louder, more prominent. We should have turned that argument around.

I admit to being a fairly ignorant about trans people and how they generally feel about all this. I only have one person to look to in order to form an opinion. It worries me right now that I may have said something with this post that could be hurtful to someone here. I hope not, but if I did I am certainly open to being corrected.

We are all human beings (well, okay... there is some question about this current administration) and while we need to defend all people we must do a better job of it. While we're at it, why don't we educate people so they know that there are not just male or female babies being born? Most people have no idea there are intersexual people. That "only male or female" argument could have been slowed a long time ago.

Americans are afraid of being BROKE.

Dear Dem candidates- This is your tag line.