While the media fixate on partisan blame, Russ Vought and a hard-right GOP faction are quietly using the shutdown to sidestep Congress and reshape government.
How much of that is because every single time it’s brought up, without fail, the immediate reaction is “it’ll never happen.”
How much are we self defeating by being convinced by conditioning that collective action just isn’t feasible?
It’s only not feasible because so many people firmly believe it’s not. This is the most powerful tool in the system’s arsenal: our own surety that we will never act.
It’s literally the one and only thing that holds us back
It’ll never happen, sadly.
How much of that is because every single time it’s brought up, without fail, the immediate reaction is “it’ll never happen.”
How much are we self defeating by being convinced by conditioning that collective action just isn’t feasible?
It’s only not feasible because so many people firmly believe it’s not. This is the most powerful tool in the system’s arsenal: our own surety that we will never act.
It’s literally the one and only thing that holds us back
Truth sucks.