

I think I was frustrated because nobody I talked to wanted to learn the context. Indeed, their entire political participation demanded they ignore it.
It took me a few years to understand it in that way.
And for the longest time I was mystified why the marginalized people could see it plainly while anyone who participated anywhere on the political spectrum : - from progressive to liberal to libertarian to mega to religious extremist , and the mainstream news - ignored the basics of democracy. It was to me, the most peculiar thing about American culture

The first of hundreds to resign later as the true magnitude of the disaster appears.
I’ve become convinced that American politics is going to be fundamentally changed sooner than we thought. That’s not to say that it will be better, or more humanistic, or even more realistic. I just think there will be a shift in the no kings march; and a change in the opposition rhetoric, at a minimum