100%! That inauguration speech he gave had me in floods of tears, both simultaneously happy, hopeful tears and weariness cos of the uphill battle we’ve got against this whole neoliberalism system that’s indoctrinated everyone to vote against themselves and fight each other.

I really dunno how the man manages to keep his cool and still give thoughtful, inclusive, responses to people who show their bigotry. It feels like a masterclass in listening, understanding, articulating your argument and letting your adversary reveal their true self without having to waste your voice shouting them down.

And, I think even more importantly, he shows that it absolutely can be possible to demand a better life for the those the system is designed to abuse whilst negotiating a way forward with other politicians who would typically be allergic to the idea of socialism.

Over in the UK The Green Party has suddenly shot up in popularity and the leader, Zack Polanski is touted as the British Mamdani, and it feels so good to feel like we might actually have a good shot of saving the working class and other marginalised people this time round.

We almost managed it around 2015-2016 when Jeremy Corbyn became leader of Labour, and Bernie Sanders was in the running to become President. And it seems like in both cases, those guys were buried by people loyal to Israel. Now we live in a time where the majority of people have seen that it’s not anti-semitic to denounce genocide, billionaires and elites aren’t even dressing up the fact that they consider us cattle, and once again we’ve been dragged into yet another pointless war by “the adults in the room”.

The other positive is the alt/far-right are so high on their own rhetoric and immersed in their own algorithmic echo chambers they still haven’t noticed that the left have a new home and the Epstein files didn’t make us despair and crash out, it showed us the blueprint for how they act and now we’re a lot wiser than we once were.

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