Should be flipped, compare the “seen by both eyes” regions.

Cool, I agree. But moderately better politicians like Bernie calling out crony capitalism is better than not. Labor is still free to organize.

Cool. You can directly criticize capitalism. Do your grassroots. Don’t hate on Bernie because he is using the most effective tools at his disposal. What he’s doing is, probably, better overall for the general state of socialist thought in this country than any alternative at his disposal.

You can take direct labor action without denigrating the man for following his path: trying to move the window from inside the system. If you think you can do better, do it. As it stands, do you think you’ve done more, to actually shift overall labor sentiment in this country to the left, than he has through his “marginally better” moderate progressivism?

Okay, do that. Organize. Bernie is doing his incremental thing, because that works in politics. He can’t make you organize, that’s a you thing. Let him do his thing.

Sure, I agree, do that. But what can Bernie do, in his domain, that’s more effective than what he’s doing? If you want to organize, organize. That is a legitimate action. But Bernie’s domain is politics, and there’s no point playing the politics game badly.

Let him cook. You can do your own cooking.

Unions still operate under capitalism? Not sure how unionizing plays into dismantling capitalism. This is a conversation about politicians like Bernie not going far enough to fundamentally disavow capitalism completely. The question is, what is an effective alternative to incremental, foot-in-the-door political baseline? What could Bernie be doing differently, that would actually be effective?

Sure, but it’s a question of praxis.

Okie doke. What’s your suggestion then? You think a Marxist candidate can win one of the two primaries? You think a Marxist candidate can beat both parties in the general? What exactly is your alternative to incrementally progressive policy?

That’s not rhetorical, if you have a serious alternative I’m sincerely eager to hear it.

The Illuminatus Trilogy did a lot of heavy lifting in inspiring a sense of meta-skeptical relativism, though largely by offering a central hub for many other rabbit holes.

Gurren Lagann instilled me with a sense of inextinguishable optimistic determination, for myself individually and as a part of the human race

There are plenty of others, but these two had the most profound effects.

Political efficacy, in my opinion, is a better strategy than fruitless idealism.

I try not to use a lot of plastic wrap, but sometimes it’s the right tool for the job. I will always spring for the good stuff, generic is basically useless and you waste way more for inferior performance.

Why not just have Scotty beam your shit out directly?