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Thanks for this, which I think includes some good points from the alt right, some of which, as you know, I've read at Saidit. (White supremacy is however a non-starter.) For example, it's good to question corrupt practices, some of which by Zionists. And yes, there are serious problems with the leading political parties.

But here's the rub:

As we know from HS Civics, the state of US politics is traditionally - if democracy works - a balancing act whereby one of two (and long ago, 3) leading parties trade places for control of governance. In the event of too much control by one party, the American experiment has built into it a means by which so-called "checks and balances" can challenge a corrupt development in one aspect of government. If however the Supreme Court has a majority of right-wing political hacks, and the House and Senate can be controlled by the Republicans (via filibuster) and corporations who pay off Joe Manchin and his ilk, then what does the alt right plan to do about this?

What Saiditors need to do is discuss solutions, rather than continue to complain, or to offer examples of who they are and what they want. If you won't vote for Democrats or Republicans (or Libertarian/Republican light), what will you do to make a make any changes in US politics. The solution at the moment is to balance political power and elect Democrats who will challenge the corrupt Republicans. (Yes, there are bad Democrats; I get it. Joe Manchin should be voted out of office, for example, for taking corporate bribes.) If there is any meaning to what the alt right want, there has to be a process whereby solutions are considered. I am not getting from Saiditors any of these solutions, only complaints.

I am not sure why you've asked me a question about a redeemable aspect of my world view, though one answer to this question is that: I am asking for solutions, and noting that old career politicians should be voted out of office so that new politicians who will do something for the 99% will be elected. And as noted above, the ONLY way this will work in the current 'representative democracy' is for a few Democrats to be elected, so that they can pass a the voting rights bill they recently had filibustered to death by Republicans (this would have limited Citizens United and corporate control). Already, the Democrats passed a jobs bill that will put people back to work. This is redeemable. Under Trump, the previous aid bill merely put money in the pockets of the 1%. I didn't need or want a lousy $1200, which didn't really help people. Instead of throwing a handfull of dollars at poor people, the government should help with jobs, which is exactly what happened with the jobs bill. This would not have been possible in a Republican-controlled government.