Powerful House Republican Joins Retirement Wave

> keep living in denial. Says the person repeating shallow hot takes on the Internet. You'll eventually realize that you were propagandized just as much as MAGA. The only question is whether you'll admit it and learn from it or blame everyone else while you cling to your new ideology with just as much critical thinking as you applied this time around.

I'm part of the crew picking up the pieces and helping families affected by Republican policy. That's all I can do. The organization set up to help progressives run for office, Run For Something, gave me the cold shoulder and said they would not support me at all due to my age which is mid-40s. They only want younger candidates. I live in Mississippi where the church rules, however I help run a secular organization that is raising money for charity works across the state and is coordinating where so many of those most holy of places aren't, and actively refusing to help immigrants for example. My point is when it comes to actually affecting legislation there's a lot of talk about doing something but nobody can really say what. And that shit gets tiring. People ARE doing things but unfortunately I can't tell Roger Wicker to defund ICE or vote against Trump to stop the war in Iran, or get him to push against the destructive tariff policy. He's literally told people at a fundraiser that he thinks people who write his office need to "get a life" as in he couldn't care less about the plight of the people in his state. The rest of our reps are bought and paid for by AIPAC and have no accountability to the people in the state either. And the Democratic party in our state is a f****** joke, full of people who are just happy to have a title and a paycheck but don't put any effort into boosting good candidates or seeking out anyone who can win. Right wing media is overwhelming here. The words liberal and Democrat are slurs. They love what ICE is doing here, and cheered that a couple of "blue hairs", a slur they use to refer to liberals, got killed for protesting. So, to the idea guys who say we should do something, tell me again what your big ideas are to affect legislation so that we can stop treating the symptoms and actually start healing the wounds here? Because there are lots of people working hard to push back but we're just picking up the pieces here.

> ~~stop~~ continue bitching on the internet ~~and start bitching in person.~~ I'm assuming they'll do that. These people are exhausting that they complain no one is doing anything, then protests are schedule and they complain that does nothing, then you give them other tangible things to do and they can't be bothered because "what's the point." Well, the system sucks but nothing will change if you don't work within to disrupt it and push for reform through voting for and supporting progressive candidates. The indifference and individualistic attitude is getting absurd.