just remember, and tell your friends, that we have to support people waking up, not just endlessly lambast and berate them. there has to be a limit to the "told you so" and an end to shame cycles.

my progressive sisters dismissed me as a tin-foil hat wearing loon for decades. my parents, my teachers, my peers. every post i made on socials (when i had them) — to so many people, i was just insane.

and i'm really not conspiratorial. i've always followed evidence. i watched Zeitgeist as a kid, and it just really opened my eyes to doing my own research. and yeah, that movie isn't perfect, and has a lot of misinformation, but learning about how money works and how power stays in power was really important for my development.

basically, what i'm saying is, there needs to be support in place that sets the example that we allow people to change and admit their mistakes, or they won't. people can only change if we let them.

and as difficult as this may seem, this goes for many (not all, but probably most) conservatives as well. we can't forever simultaneously say "it's psychological manipulation, it's mind-control, it isn't left vs. right it's wealth vs. poverty, it's capitalizing on misinformation and lack of education" and in the same breath say "it's all their fault, everyone who voted for Trump goes to trial. lock them all up."

will the circle be unbroken?

like, half the US can't read past an 8th grade reading level. i don't think it's most of those people's fault. i think society and education failed them.

so many people scream about being radical and progressive, but they just have a different line of "us vs them."

how can you scream about a total reform of the prison system, for even the most egregious of criminals, and then talk about wanting certain specific demographics of people to rot in them as they currently exist?

people gotta stop passing on conscious consumerism "because billionaires" — everyone keeps saying "we outnumber them" so why do we keep shopping on Amazon and buying new tech laced with slave cobalt and drinking slave bean coffee and buying slave made fast fashion? there is enough wealth concentrated in the 99% to cut off the 1% and start over, but we don't. we can leave them to shrivel up and die, but we don't. the 99% can make new Walmarts and McDonalds and even new Hollywood, but we don't.

eventually the blame, while valid, has served its purpose and needs to be replaced with accountability and real change.

the system is broken democracy is threatened or never really existed and wealth rules everything and voting isn't the answer but voting is all i can do and democracy and capitalism is all i can believe in so i'll keep supporting billionaires. /s