The left have a job in all this too, and it is to sit back and let it all happen. Occasionally be dismissive of the voting process and attack liberals that might otherwise agree with you, without educating them first.

If you’re for some reason not cool with losing, you should probably begin working to reform your party into something that’s actually helpful and effective.

The little l version of it that he described is underrated.

I’d believe you were sincere if I saw the same kind of posts when elections weren’t right around the corner.

Anyway the answer is that you can talk about it responsibly, but you have to look at the end result or consequences for each of the choices available to help determine the way forward. You can’t frame it as whether the party meets a particular threshold of goodness before it’s worthy of your vote. While there is a lot of low hanging fruit, not everyone will agree about everything and people are naturally resistant to change. It takes sustained effort.

It’s the responsibility of everyone in a democracy to participate so that parties are more representative of their constituents. Only a tiny piece of that participation involves voting.

No, what got us here is thinking one day of effort (voting) will get the job done.

You only provided one example of effort in a misleading way.

Both sides are so obviously not the same that there is a concerted effort before every election to make people think that they are.

It can take time. Try to make it a habit.

Things that help me are nature, exercise, and escapism. If you can, get out into nature and just observe it. Try to break a sweat for at least thirty minutes if you can, but any amount is beneficial. Escapism might be harder but if you have a longer attention span I’d recommend reading. For a shorter one I’d honestly recommend Tetris.

Set timers for mealtimes, workouts, and bedtimes

The only people this helps are fascists.

Voting is one activity and we all want to just vote our problems away in one day. But that’s wishful thinking and frankly, childish.

Work all year to improve the choices at the voting booth and make the best choice you can once you’re there. Rinse and repeat.

Slow and steady wins the race or whatever Aesop said.

The idea is to make the best choice you can at the voting booth and then work throughout the year to improve your choices. This is what conservatives have done for as long as I can remember.

It’s slow at first and everybody wants everything right away but patience pays dividends.

The bar is subterranean

Emergent content is what I liked about loading a ton of Skyrim mods. Too bad it was also crashy as hell.

I’d like to start a new game but since I’m Linux only these days it makes it harder.

I have a cheap, early ship there from the Kickstarter. Never been flown.

I bounced off breath of the wild but got hooked with tears of the kingdom. I didn’t finish it though, similar to my experience with wind waker. They all felt like Zelda, just expanded.

If I stuck to the story it would probably be closer to the original experience.

Is it mostly pine up there?

I mean I agree in principle, but she’s 90. Did they really expect her to never have a downturn?

He’s doing that because one alternative is better than the other. Nothing is preventing us from continuing to push the party left in addition to that.

The real opportunity comes from being able to see results from the likes of Mamdani. Every “win” he achieves shows that change is possible. That example could be enough to ratchet the Democrats back to the left.

I do have reservations about us getting in our own way but maybe this time we’ll learn the value of patience and temperance.

Do you know that he isn’t doing both?

And then continue to work to make the party more reflective of its members

People have to know how to create the math problem then. Schools are really falling down here

Too much suffering that way, for everyone.