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Well, too late.
You aren't trying to influence anybody. You are in the middle of a slow moving coup with next to zero institutional leverage because you botched the elections¡ so bad.
It's not on the Dems anymore, the US electorate made very sure that was the case. Anybody unsatisfied with the milquetoast liberal's resistance manual should be out on the streets flipping cars and enforcing a general strike, not whining online about how powerless dems are powerless. After the millionth time democrats don't call for those emergency actions it stops being their fault that the rest of the country is sitting and waiting for them to organize street-level opposition.
Ugh. Crap. This is what happens when you engage with American politics. I'm out for the sake of my general mental health. You guys figure it out. Wake me up when you've approved a new Constitution or the tanks are landing in Greenland.
Just to be clear, I did not botch a damn thing; I voted for Harris.
Everything else you said, assuming you mean "you" as in Americans generally rather than attacking me personally, I agree with.
It is "you" as in Americans, and I mean every one of you individually.
I have no need to differentiate. Americans are as hostile to me right now as Russians, I don't acknowledge any more individuality within one of those groups than the other.
So yeah, once Americans stop being hostile or get so hostile we need to actually fight them it's all the same to me. I'll let politicians and spies care about how much opposition to the regime there is and how it can be leveraged in the ongoing cold war. I have no need to engage any further than that.
Damn thats how 4547 talks about minorities maybe you two would get along.
Americans aren't a "minority".
Well, if they move here they are, I suppose, and then it's whatever. Just like Russian political refugees seeking asylum I have no problem managing that securely. They have all my empathy. That's more deference than America will give anybody else.
As citizens of a hostile country participating in its hostility, it is what it is.