• silence7@slrpnk.netOPM
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    1 year ago

    Political capital is more like muscle than a one-shot battery: it gets stronger when you use it in ways that have public support.

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      1 year ago

      Point well taken, but I’d say getting the US Congress to agree to things that inconvenience the rich might be an exception. I really wish we could get the ball rolling on that in a self-sustaining, self-amplifying way that compounded to larger and larger changes and more and more public support. But that just isn’t how my government has worked in my lifetime in my experience.