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This is not a sit-in, and degrades what sit-ins actually were.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sit-in
Democratic leadership is complacent.
I'm increasingly convinced Democratic leadership is in on it.
Honestly what do they, as individual career politicians in a now-nakedly-corrupt industry, stand to gain from fixing any of it? Their actions are primariy about advancing their careers because Congress has been broken for years and what else would they do?
The consultant's credo is, "if you can't be part of the solution, there's good money to be made in prolonging the problem."
Meaning the politician's credo is now the reverse "There's good money to be made in prolonging the problem, you won't be part of the solution."
Absolutely, in a rapidly developing corrupt oligarchy, you're going to see the people in power rapidly distill into two groups, the ideologically committed and the aspiring oligarchs, and I think you're going to find the latter group is significantly larger than the former.
They are. They will not bite the hand that feeds and those billionaires are the ones feeding them. Citizens United and Super PACs are pure corruption.
Feels similar to a filibuster that was actually just an extended speech.
It looks like the appearance of action, without consequence.
Yeah. You want to make it a protest, do it on the floor of the Senate and block it until they remove you.
“Extended lunch” didn’t attract any cameras so they had to workshop the name.