Politics

Letter from Our Reader!

The students will get involved in a movement to pass a few laws about guns. They will support bourgeois politicians whose job it is to rope them into the system. There will be no real changes, so they will get demoralized. Meanwhile, they will not really study why this is happening, the real history of the US, etc. They will not see that the problem is the system itself. The system will thus be safe and secure.

Then some of the students will, "reluctantly," run for office themselves, or support some reformist politicians who promise to "help" them. They will get their supporters to waste all of their energies in getting them elected. Again, the system wins.

If a few of the students or politicians win, they will get sucked into the "realistic" game, of what can be "won" by being "realistic" and making "compromises." Which is exactly nothing. Then they will have to win re-election, so even more compromises and accepting money from the same sources as other bourgeois politicians ("lesser evil"). In the end, they will be bourgeois politicians supporting the system like all the others. And another opportunity to expose and fight the system will have been lost and wasted.

And the system wins again.

Ad nauseum.