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In reply to the discussion: A Letter to My Sublime Allies on the US Left [View all]whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)Truly. I would never presume to comment, let alone lecture you, about your child. My comment related to your anecdote about the choice to have kids.
I understand your position, but am not seeing enough of the blooming and growing you elude to. Outside of a few meaningful advances in social justice, I see a lot more regression than slow and steady progress. This is because the folks with all the marbles aren't really interested in the same world we are. They have a different utopia in mind. They've also captured our political process, rendering your approach (working within the system) practically useless for addressing our problems. What ground has this patient, measured effort gained for us? The rich own everything, the wars roll on without end, more and more people fall through the economic cracks, we're continuing to lose our liberties, little is being done to deal with our impending ecological disaster... If your way is how it's done, why does shit just seem to get worse?