I don't know anyone on this thread.

I was commenting about one post from cryptosenpai. My focus here is simply to urge people away from the pointless mire of "political fatalism." Humans will always be at war, as long as unproductive parasites can use "feedback-and-correction"-based control mechanisms designed to deal with rights-violations to steal money, instead of earn it.

The famine in the Ukraine and the gas chambers of Nazi Germany are how bad it can get. Poland's Perestroika, the USA's abolitionist movement succeeding at making slavery unenforceable in MA, etc. are how good it can get. Abolishing the DEA and ATF are well within the bounds of the politically possible.

The good in a political world that is full of sociopaths admittedly isn't very good. Lobaczewski, Milgram, and other students of "political evil" were and are right. (But the political good of "true democracy in the proper sense" allows improvement, and rising intelligence.) The bad("totalitarianism") doesn't allow improvement, until we've lost literally everything of good in our lives, and in the lives of our grandchildren.

Most people don't see the huge price-tag cynicism, resignation, fatalism, and political-relinquishment carry until they're in the gulag, paying it. Then, it's too late.

You seem to know this. I don't get the sense cryptosenpai does, since he's spouting off Konkinist assertions.

I dislike Konkinist assertions that detract from serious political involvement. I'd like to see libertarians become as serious as Ron Paul's supporters were, and then, even more serious than that.

Politics is the art of the possible. It requires continual passive support of the best available option, above a threshold of "acceptable." (Hillary, Bernie, Trump, Otter, etc. are all "unacceptable" in my view.)

What's even more unacceptable than that is pretending that one is doing something against the state by "sitting at home on election day." There may not be a good option, but, if so, that's shameful, because our republic is in shambles, dominated by totalitarian sociopaths.