I think it's really important to have principled and inspired voices which Dr. West and Claudia de la Cruz definitely are and other lefty candidates very much are and they're valuable they're valuable in the race as well but I

think it's important for people to be strategic about what is actually going to be a threat

which is going to be a threat, which is going to make Empire quake in its boots and move Empire,

move its positions, or replace Empire. And I wouldn't rule that out given the really unprecedented position that Americans are in right now,

really the whole world is in, where the need for deep change has never been so

profound and the possibility of actually realizing that change has never loomed so large as it is now.

Yeah I think you're really identifying something very, very true about this political moment seeming very ripe

an opportunity for alternative candidates, for outsider candidates, not just because of the state of the world,

but because there's polarization happening online

that are not represented by either major parties.

So you have a significant group of sort of America First voters who are frustrated with military spending in Ukraine.

There are people who are both America First folks and also who are kind of principled objectors who are very frustrated about military spending in Israel

that's being used to facilitate what the ICJ has called a plausible genocide.

RFK Jr. for a while seemed to be really capitalizing on a cohort of the public that was very frustrated about

COVID-era policy and mixed messaging out of the Biden administration as to what was medically

indicated for various interventions,

some of which I would argue is more legitimate, some of which wasn't frustrated also about

the weird silencing around lably coercion and whether that could be a plausible theory of

the start of COVID in addition to being interested in his critique of the CIA and

the FBI and deep power and all of these kinds of things. And yet the mainstream candidates have none of that.

Trump, Biden, unity of interest with respect to military spending.

Biden's COVID policies are basically

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