@rbreich
Give us #solutions, please!
You list the *symptoms, then ask the weak to do something.

The true cause is that politicians are beholden to big donors, whether #wallstreet or #billionares, and it is very human to feel obligated when given gifts. Especially big ones.

Remove #bigmoney from #politics, make politicians beholden to the voters again. Even the Democrats don't have the stomach for that, sadly.

Think of a solution for the money problem, how to reverse or work around the #Citizensunited decision. Then advise those that could make it happen.

#Bellyaching about what is, when politicians act like, well... politicians, without laying out a plan annoys your audience and frustrates the preacher.

Everyone #bellyaching about the #Mastodon #learningcurve needs to remember #twitter was 'hard' at first. It got easy because you learned it. This will get easier too.

Also you were trained to think being manipulated & #attention_raped, often by bots, was normal. You were trained to think #commodifying & #monetising every online encounter was normal. It is not.

Now you need to learn to socialise with others w/o asking to be paid for it or holding up begging notices 'will eat dirt for likes'.