And they support twisted ideals of what are attributed to liberals. Like re-segregation. Don't know what else you would call "safe zones, schools, and areas exclusively for black americans." Then there's the whole extreme censorship thing, where anything at all that could be perceived as offensive in any way possible must be banned and censored, including things that are very mild, like "wimp," or "coward." No, I'm not making that up. There are people who actually want those words banned from all media.

It is worth noting that there are also right wing SJWs, who want to do things like ban any and all criticisms of the US, or of christianity.

The so-called "left" gets bashed mostly over culture war stuff, identity politics etc. Yet our priorities are economic. The biggest issue is wealth inequality and how it affects politics. Why did the Obama administration and a Dem-controlled Congress extend the Bush tax cuts for the rich, when they easily could have done nothing and let them expire? Why is Obama the first president since FDR who didn't obtain an increase in the federal minimum wage? Why did Obama convene the Catfood Commission to promote more tax cuts for the rich and benefit cuts for everyone else? The culture war is a distraction.

There isn't much we need to do. The PTB will foolishly expend what value remains in this nation, and it will collapse from within.

Take the economy (please!). The war against the worker has again heated up. Layoffs are increasing, and the Fed threatens to raise interest rates. The Fed signal ALWAYS means more layoffs and reduced income for the working class generally. As we still have yet to fully recover from the 2008 crash, there isn't as much room to fall this time. It will hurt worse than the last one.

Take global issues. War remains likely with both China and Russia. There is no reason to think that it wouldn't go nuclear fast. But even if somehow that doesn't happen, it will be very bloody, more like the Pacific War than like Afghanistan.

Now throw in climate change. The deniers are having a hard time coming up with excuses as to why the scientists are wrong. they aren't getting the same play in the major media they once enjoyed as a result. But with the deniers quieted, there remains no meaningful effort to do anything about it. With much of the US farmland expected to be in deep drought for many years, food riots will become more likely, and the draconian laws pushed through the Congress beginning with Reagan and continuing with Obama will be invoked.

Power can only be maintained by the few as long as the majority acquiesces to their rule. Hungry people have nothing to lose against such forces. It will be seen as being better to die quickly than to endure a long starvation, and to take one of the oppressive bastards with you when you go.

Vote all you want. The secret government won’t change.
The people we elect aren’t the ones calling the shots, says Tufts University’s Michael Glennon [link]

IDEAS: This isn’t how we’re taught to think of the American political system.

GLENNON: I think the American people are deluded, as Bagehot explained about the British population, that the institutions that provide the public face actually set American national security policy. They believe that when they vote for a president or member of Congress or succeed in bringing a case before the courts, that policy is going to change. Now, there are many counter-examples in which these branches do affect policy, as Bagehot predicted there would be. But the larger picture is still true—policy by and large in the national security realm is made by the concealed institutions.

IDEAS: Do we have any hope of fixing the problem?

GLENNON: The ultimate problem is the pervasive political ignorance on the part of the American people. And indifference to the threat that is emerging from these concealed institutions. That is where the energy for reform has to come from: the American people. Not from government. Government is very much the problem here. The people have to take the bull by the horns. And that’s a very difficult thing to do, because the ignorance is in many ways rational. There is very little profit to be had in learning about, and being active about, problems that you can’t affect, policies that you can’t change.