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Emily's avatar

"You’re always allowed to say no. You don’t actually have to throw anybody under the bus." The biggest lie that politicians have perpetrated on the public is to convince them they don't have agency. They live in fear that, we the many, will eventually realize it isn't true. No one knows where the tipping point is, but the humanity-first movement is percolating, I can feel it. Keep the faith.

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Becky G's avatar

I don't know if this really fits here or not, but this popped up in my social-media memories today from four years ago:

We are so used to gaslighting and barely getting crumbs that when they say, "We are cutting child poverty in half," we say, "Yay!" Not, "Uh, wait. What about the other half?" And they say, "Can they find some bootstraps to eat?"

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