From Tribalism to Truth: What Astrology and History Reveal About Our Politics

Introduction:

America is in transition. Astrology shows it, history confirms it, and our nervous systems feel it. But most manifesting talk skips the hard part: regulation and unlearning.

You can’t leap from CPTSD to “healed and rich” by Tuesday. What actually changes reality is your nervous system’s capacity — not magic. And bypassing the real world isn’t regulation.

I had to pause other people’s frameworks long enough to find my own ethics and values. Because other people can only advise me as they would choose for themselves. Meaning, if they were too afraid to quit their job, they would tell me not to quit mine.

Their capacity is not my truth.

When I quit my job on May 6th, as I had been led to do for months, I had no savings, no real plan, and a knowing of the economic scarcity that would be forced onto us here in America. I was terrified. But, I learned how to sit in that discomfort, and walk myself back to trust and surrender.

And every time we needed it the answer arrived. This has created more reference points for my nervous system to understand my stability and safety lies in my personal alignment, more so than the collective chaos. And so, manifestation proves itself real to me, not by love and light.

But by being willing to be honest and authentic. Not just with how I feel if I am angry, sad, grieving, but about what is happening in our country and the world. Because bypassing isn’t authenticity.

You can hold both truths:

• Manifestation works — but not as instant, glittery magic. It’s about training your nervous system to expand what it can hold without collapsing, so your choices, presence, and capacity change your reality.
• It’s not a merit badge for worthiness. The playing field is wildly uneven, and trauma, oppression, and conditioning shape what we believe is possible long before we ever try to “attract” anything.

The “gurus” skip the middle:

• They don’t talk about the months or years of regulation, unlearning, and steady exposure it takes to hold a bigger life without sabotaging it.
• They don’t name that survival adaptations aren’t bad energy — they’re brilliant responses to unsafe conditions.
• They sell the quantum leap as if you can skip straight from CPTSD to “millions and healed” without the messy, layered work of rewiring.

It has taken me years to create the capacity I have right now. Love and light are beautiful — and incomplete without boundaries, grief, and practice.

In those years there were layers and layers of conditioning that I had to confront. And I would. And this new perspective would carry me to the next realization. And today I have a pretty regulated system, and more capacity than ever.

Not by avoiding my negative emotions and thoughts, but by honoring them, validating them as real and understandable through the lens of trauma, but not as an inherent truth about me that I am destined to carry forever. It’s just never that personal. Ever.

Please do your best to notice if anything you read triggers you, and instead of projecting that reflection onto the mirror exposing a truth, sit with that. Until more people understand the bridge, we cannot cross it. ❤

I hold no moral framework according to any labeled belief system. And I cannot write about manifestation without naming Gaza. No one can “wish” their way out of bombs and starvation. Any spirituality that ignores oppression is performance. If your practice doesn’t account for the world, it’s bypassing, not alignment.

So, if you’re not someone who believes manifestation is real, but complicated by the nervous system responses programmed into us as we are shaped and experienced by life, maybe I’m not for you.

I’m a Leo Rising with a Virgo Moon conjunct Saturn, and an Aquarius Sun, Mercury, and Mars. Integrity is ingrained in me and I simply cannot prop up broken systems to “get mine”. Performance isn’t my ministry.

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We start with a quote from professor, Jason Hickel, from his X account:

“Imperialism and racism are central to the capitalist world economy. The barbarism is a feature, not a bug.

This blog’s aim is not to convince you to “vote blue no matter who.” In fact, I’m here to show how both the right and the left are performing for the same elite audience — and how the rest of us keep paying the bill.

We’ll start with JD Vance, who once openly despised Trump.

So, what changed? And why does it matter?

At the end, I’ll tell you about a secretive donor club Vance co-founded in 2019 — its mission, its backers, and what it’s quietly building.

You can decide for yourself if this is the long game: wait for Trump’s health to fail, step into the presidency, and keep the oligarchy and its tech-bro architects in charge.

The Aristocrats are having one last hoorah:

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Now, for all his faults, Bernie Sanders is a consistent man. And his entire campaign he told us that this is the oldest playbook in history, to divide and conquer. But, what if we can show you that’s how it works?

What if we do a deep dive into real American history?

There is a reason they want to ban black history from schools.

Before Bacon’s Rebellion (long 16th–17th century):

In the European colonial project (Portuguese, Spanish, English, Dutch), racial ideology was already taking shape as a way to justify conquest, enslavement, and land theft in Africa, the Americas, and Asia.

By the time the English settled Virginia (1607), there was already a transatlantic slave trade, and laws in the Caribbean and Latin America coded enslaved Africans as a distinct, inferior category.

Early Virginia labor forces were mixed, African and European indentured servants working alongside each other, and the divisions weren’t yet as rigid in law as they would become.

This is why Trump justifies spies in Greenland, and regime change in Venezuela. It’s why he idealizes Putin. It’s about land grabs and power. It’s why he convinces you to hate immigrants, who are GOOD for America.

Bacon’s Rebellion (1676):

This was a revolt of poor farmers, indentured servants (white and Black), and enslaved people against the colonial elite in Virginia, fueled by anger over land, wealth inequality, and Native American policy. They were done being convinced that proximity meant power, and that people with less power than them were the problem. The real problem was the rich.

The rebellion scared the planter class — it showed that a cross-racial alliance of the poor could threaten their power.

They don’t want any revolting. I got news for them, Pluto in Aquarius is always a revolution of the people demanding their power back. And, in particular, when Pluto goes out of bounds in the southward direction, which he is doing for the next decade.

After Bacon’s Rebellion:

The elite responded by hardening racial lines in law and culture. Codified slavery as a lifelong, hereditary status for Africans and their descendants.

Gave poor whites new privileges such as land access, the legal right to bear arms, lesser punishments for crimes, the right to testify in court, plus symbolic “status” over Black people.

This was the “wages of whiteness” — a kind of social bribe to keep poor whites identifying with the planter class rather than with poor Blacks.

They convinced white servants to lord over black slaves, and consider that ‘power’ some badge of honor. Nevermind they didn’t pay them well. Just like they claim to care about veterans to this day. They do not. They only care that people sign up to fight their wars.

And currently, our military is being armed against us, the citizens.

Connecting to Jason Hickel’s Point:

The logic of racial hierarchy was already a structural feature of capitalism and imperialism before Virginia even existed.

Bacon’s Rebellion was a turning point in the colonies where that logic was sharpened into a domestic control strategy — directly splitting the working class along racial lines so they couldn’t unite against the wealthy.

It’s always been a class war. They exploit us at every turn, and turn us against each other. When you’re shouting for immigrants to be crushed instead of asking why housing, wages, and healthcare are rigged against all of us, you’re playing the oldest role in the oligarch’s script.

Blackrock wants you to blame immigrants.

Well, BlackRock itself isn’t the main actor buying houses; focusing on them alone misses the mark. The bigger issue is a mix of underbuilding, local concentration by a handful of SFR firms/PE funds, and rules that make housing an easy financial asset.

And we’ll dive deeper into that. But, rest assured Trump and the elite are building golden ballrooms while crashing the economy, and they are gleeful that you’re shouting to feed people with less power than you to the alligators, while they have all the real power.

Did you know that America really DID feed black people to alligators? And made purses and shoes from their skin? History repeats itself, and every time the oligarch is the oppressor, and we all fight each other for them. We even sign up to fight their wars for resources. It was never about freedom.

We can love the idea of America while being uncomfortable with the reality of it. That’s how we fix it — by seeing it clearly. If someone powerful and rich tells you to hate someone with less power than you, stop and ask:

Who benefits? Because history is clear — the answer is never you.

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So, as we go issue by issue, I am going to do my best to check my own bias. I admit up front that I am neither Republican or Democrat. I am an independent thinker, who happens to align with the idea that the more compassionate policies are also the most cost-affordable.

My intention is to accurately reflect the right and left side of each issue. Even though I am certain I will want to call out the racist undertones of the right, and the identity props of the left along the way. This isn’t meant to make you laugh, agree with me, or gain a ton of followers.

I’m not here to sell you a party line.

I’m here to show you — issue by issue — how both sides perform the same playbook while pretending to be opposites.

Voting Points and Concerns:

1. Immigration/border security.

Both parties use immigrants to maintain power and control. The Republicans outright make you fear them. They convince you that people with less power than you are the enemy, while they steal your taxes to enrich themselves and their rich friends.

Democrats claim to be the opposition, big tent party, but never take any real, active steps to protect you. What they have done is performative at best. Both sides serve the same corporate donors, and in order to appease their donors, they have to keep us divided.

Different costumes, same stage.

Here’s the playbook in plain English:

1) Scapegoat the least powerful, not the powerful

Instead of cracking down on employers who profit from exploitable labor, we criminalize the workers. IRCA (1986) theoretically punished bosses for hiring undocumented people, but employer-sanctions enforcement has been weak for decades — so the heat stays on migrants while the business model rolls on.

2) Make “border security” a spectacle

Starting in the 1990s (Operation Gatekeeper), Washington poured money into walls, agents, and tech. Crossings shifted to deadlier routes, but the TV optics were great: “See? We’re tough.”

It didn’t fix root causes; it performed control.

Just like them wasting that money painting the wall black on our side, and knowing at night the metal won’t be near as hot. And if someone is going to illegally cross the border they’re more apt to do that at night.

3) Mass prosecutions & detention = deterrence theater

Bush launched Operation Streamline (2005), Obama expanded it, criminally prosecuting border crossers in assembly-line hearings. It clogged courts, didn’t deter much, but created the image of “law and order.”

At the same time, both parties funded huge growth in immigration detention — often in for-profit facilities. Budgets and capacity keep climbing because the machine feeds itself.

4) “We welcome you”… while we deport you

Democrats talk inclusion, but the Obama years also brought record removals via programs like Secure Communities, which swept up many people with no criminal convictions. This is why immigrant communities call him the “deporter-in-chief.”

Republicans lean openly punitive (e.g., 2018 family separations under “zero tolerance”), a cruelty-as-deterrent approach that blew up human rights and basic competence.

5) Why this keeps us divided

Wedge & fundraising:

Fear (“invasion!”) or feel-good slogans (“we’re a nation of immigrants”) both mobilize donors — while wage theft, housing costs, and healthcare prices (the real pain) go largely unaddressed.

Labor leverage:

Keeping a shadow workforce precarious pushes down wages and chills organizing; punishing workers instead of bosses keeps everyone mad at each other instead of at the system that benefits from it. (That’s the point of weak employer enforcement + strong worker punishment.)

The real answer:

The reason we don’t default to them is a mix of politics, inertia, and moneyed interests that profit from the punishment model.

Voters on the right want someone to blame, and they’re given someone to blame. That’s why they’re so loyal to their own demise. Voters on the left want someone to fight, but are disillusioned with the Democratic leadership, which is why they’ve bled 2 million registered voters.

Voters on the right are appeased with performance, and voters on the left are enraged with it. That’s the astrological war we are in, too.

The for profit prisons mean we spend more to incarcerate all the people being held in these camps than we would to offer them a legal, humane pathway to citizenship. If you want to talk about whether or not that pathway includes learning English that’s a real debate. But not offering the humane path at all is not real debate. It’s gross and immoral.

And the goal of the elite is always cheap labor, which means they are getting paid your tax dollars to house, feed, and care for the prisoners, who are the only citizens in America guaranteed healthcare. Plus they get a cheap labor force, where the labor has no choice.

Detention costs the government roughly $150–$165 per person per day. Alternatives to Detention (ATD) like check-ins/GPS/case management cost about $4/day and still get very high court-appearance rates. Even ICE advertises this gap.

Alternatives to Detention

The Family Case Management Program (FCMP) — community case management for families — ran ~$38/day per family, with ~99% compliance for ICE check-ins and immigration court. (Family detention runs hundreds per person per day.)

The Government Ended an Effective and Less Costly Alternative to Immigration Detention - American…

With a lawyer, immigrants show up: multiple datasets put appearance rates around 95–97%+. That’s cheaper than detention and preserves due process.

Evidence Shows That Most Immigrants Appear for Immigration Court...

Cities that fund legal help/work authorization find big fiscal upsides (more taxes earned, reduced shelter costs). NYC’s comptroller estimated billions in economic benefits.

Net: If your goal is compliance and orderly processing, case-management + counsel beats cages on both cost and outcomes.

You don’t have to be on the right or left to see the truth here. They want you tribal. They want you loyal to your own demise — while they wine and dine in ballrooms you’ll never step foot in.

There is no middle. Both sides serve the same swine.

In 1996, the Clinton administration’s immigration bill vastly expanded mandatory detention; in 2005, Bush grew it again under Operation Streamline; in the Obama years, capacity hit record highs.

This is exactly what Jason Hickel was talking about: keep labor cheap and divided, externalize the costs, and use race or nationality as the wedge.

Compassion is cheaper. It’s more effective. And it’s the only moral option.
If you’re on the right, that means refusing to be played into blaming the powerless while the powerful rob you.

If you’re on the left, that means refusing to settle for leaders who use compassion as a slogan while voting to fund cages.

The “middle” isn’t compromise between those two — it’s solidarity against the whole machine.

So why not choose the cheaper, humane route?

A few forces keep the punishment model alive:

1. Industry incentives.

Private detention companies (e.g., GEO Group, CoreCivic) earn revenue per “bed” and spend heavily on lobbying; they’ve also fought in court to keep detainee labor at $1/day.

Those incentives don’t align with shrinking detention.

2. Deterrence theater.

Since the 1990s, both parties have funded highly visible “border toughness” (walls, mass prosecutions, expanded detention) because it looks decisive — even though it’s costlier and doesn’t fix root causes.

3. Bureaucratic inertia & optics.

Agencies are budgeted around detention capacity (tens of thousands of beds, >$3B/yr), and leaders fear being blamed if someone absconds — so they overspend on the most punitive option.

4. Revolving doors & conflicts.

News investigations keep surfacing ties between immigration policy officials and detention contractors — exactly the kind of entanglements that bias decisions toward incarceration hardware instead of cheaper community programs.

Compassion is cheaper and more effective.

We don’t use it by default because some folks profit from punishment, and “toughness” plays better on TV than spreadsheets.

Both parties talk like opposites on immigration and incarceration, but the paper trail shows long, bipartisan agreement on the punishment/privatization model. And private prisons aren’t a “one-side” creation — they’ve been grown, funded, and protected by both.

Because the Democrats you hoped would save you are funded by the same people as the Republicans who are playing on the emotions of their base to incite the very hatred and fascism no one is protecting any of us from.

Short version: blaming immigrants is a profit-protecting distraction. It keeps people punching down while power keeps cashing in.

Conservatives, cheap immigrant labor isn’t taking your jobs. They’re doing the jobs Americans won’t do most of the time. Your leaders are playing on your emotions. They cause your suffering, the cruelty is the point, and then they have you punch down to people with less power than you.

If you’re not racist, and you really do just want a safe country, less spending, then compassionate pathways are the answer here. This is why it’s difficult for people not to call you racist if you’re truly informed, and not just brainwashed to hate people different than you.

Liberals and Democrats, immigrants are great for this country. And you are correct to want to see a more humane, compassionate approach. But you’re not going to get it voting the same leadership into power. It’s time for you to face the truth about the Democratic party.

They are weak on purpose. And your refusal to let them go, and join forces with the real left is harming the very cause you claim to care about.

The real middle isn’t halfway between red and blue. The real middle is where working people stop punching down — and start punching up.

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2. Cost of living/inflation & “the economy.”

The bipartisan playbook that harms us

A) Pick a villain that isn’t their donors.

The right blames immigrants, wokeness, DEI, and moral decline.

The left blames republicans and “corporate greed”, but leadership falls short of naming specific donor backed structures. They take the same bribes that conservatives do.

Both frames keep attention off the pricing power of dominant companies and the policies that protect it. Research shows profits played an outsized role in the initial surge of prices, then stayed unusually elevated even as some costs fell. They do stock buybacks instead of paying labor more.

Right now, Trump has fired all food inspectors. Our food in this country was already not safe. Regulation cost money, yes, but I’d rather our collective taxes pay for safety regulators, than trust corporations not to give me cancer and be stuck with medical bills.

We just had radioactive shrimp recalled.

B) Outsource the pain to the Fed.

Instead of tackling root causes (consolidation, housing scarcity, health-care pricing), leaders cheer interest-rate hikes as “fighting inflation,” which mainly cools demand by making life more expensive and threatening jobs. The Fed itself is now reassessing its framework after the 2021–22 spike — proof that this blunt tool didn’t map neatly onto what actually drove prices.

Meanwhile, the IMF’s read is that wage pressure wasn’t the main culprit in most economies (with the U.S. as a partial exception) — undercutting the “blame workers” story.

C) Keep the donor umbilical cord intact.

The same industries pouring money into politics show up in both parties’ finance streams. That doesn’t mean every policy is bought — but it does explain why “solutions” so often tiptoe around the business models setting prices. (Follow the money— Open Secrets keeps the receipts.)

https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview/industries

How our division helps them dodge real fixes:

If we’re arguing about immigrants vs. “greedflation,” we’re not talking about price-setting power, markups, and local monopolies. (Economists debate magnitudes, but even cautious Fed/IMF reads acknowledge profits were a big early driver and margins stayed unusually high.)

Culture-war heat = fundraising gold, while cross-partisan solutions (build housing, break up chokepoints, cut junk fees, negotiate drug prices, enforce real competition) get sidelined.

The right tells you to fear trans kids in bathrooms; the left tells you they’ll protect them. Neither delivers — because for both parties, fear is more valuable than solutions.

You hate your neighbor, who Jesus told you to love.

The left pretends it cares about protecting trans people, but it doesn’t. Not the Democratic party left. The real left has never had a voice. And we’re going to talk about that, too. I want this to be as informative as it can be.

If abusive daddy yells that trans kids are going to SA your child in a public restroom, and enabling mommy says, “Don’t make me have to get your daddy”, where does that leave us? Because republicans sell hatred, and the democrats sell fear. And neither of those is rooted in Christ or love.

Corporate media’s brainwash:

“Corporate media” props up the red/blue duopoly with a handful of repeatable moves that make great TV, keep advertisers happy, and squeeze out voices to the left of the Democratic Party.

This means not just CNN, MSNBC, Insert your favorite, but Fox is the worst. And if you were serious about your values and beliefs you would know that. Because surely you’ve read of the lawsuits they settled? It’s not even that one sells hatred and the other fear. Both sell fear; love’s opposite.

The harder you cling to your party the tighter you’re holding onto the fear.

The playbook (short + spicy)

1. Concentrate the megaphone.

A few conglomerates (and giant station groups) control most of what people see. That gatekeeping power is still consolidating — e.g., the proposed Nexstar–Tegna tie-up would put one owner within reach of ~80% of U.S. households if rules are relaxed.

Fewer owners = narrower range of acceptable ideas on air.

Just like Trump took off PBS and replaced it with Prager U because Prager U paid and bribed him. Both sides do this. The right is just more brazen. And the reason they want to replace real educational television like Sesame Street with Prager U is to brainwash you into white supremacy control.

Only, it won’t matter if you’re not white and rich, so don’t get too excited.

2) Ratings > substance (horse-race beats policy).

When politics is treated as a thriller, “who’s up/down” gets wall-to-wall coverage while structural ideas (labor power, universal programs, antitrust) get sidelined. Newsroom studies of 2016 showed horserace dominance and outsized “earned media” for spectacle candidates — fueled by executives openly admitting the chaos was profitable.

(“It may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS.”)

"It Might Not Be Good for America, But It's Good for Us": How the Media Got Rich on Trump's Rise

3) Debate gatekeeping locks in two parties.

The Commission on Presidential Debates (created by the R & D parties) sets thresholds (famously 15% in national polls) that keep third-party/independent voices off the biggest stage. The League of Women Voters walked away in 1988 calling the party-controlled setup a “fraud on the American voter.”

Result: the “Overton window” on TV is whatever illusion they like.

4) “Balance” that narrows the left.

Corporate outlets will platform a broad spectrum on the right (from Chamber-of-Commerce moderates to hard culture-war voices), but to the left they tend to center the party line and treat democratic-socialist or anti-imperialist arguments as fringe — often via minimal coverage or “electability” frames (see early-cycle coverage gaps around Sanders in 2015–16). Which led us where we are now.

5) Shared investors, shared incentives.

Major news companies and the corporations they cover often share the same big institutional shareholders, which doesn’t require a phone call to shape coverage; the incentive structure already rewards stability, horse-race drama, and ad-friendly content over systemic critiques.

6) Distrust is a feature they can monetize.

As trust falls, outlets lean harder into sensational formats that “keep you watching,” which further crowds out deep reporting on labor, antitrust, housing, and healthcare pricing — the very issues where a real left critique would land.

For most voters the cruelty is not the point, but for the leadership it is. The more they can hurt, harm, and exploit us all the cheaper their labor costs. And without labor they would have nothing at all. Tell me that’s a lie.

I’m open to serious questions, but I’m not debating reality.

Net effect

Different costumes, same stage:

corporate media amplifies the two parties’ tug-of-war while making sure the rope never pulls past the boundaries of donor-approved policy. The “real left” isn’t banned; it’s starved of oxygen — kept off debate stages, under-covered early, and framed as unelectable when it does surface.

Just look at how leadership yells at us to vote blue no matter who, or daddy might hurt us. Yet, Mamdani is soaring in popularity, and they refuse to endorse him. Cuomo is rapist and they’d rather him win. That’s the truth.

Republicans don’t care about conservative values, and Democrats don’t care about protecting the least of these. Both of them care about the almighty dollar, and exploiting us for profit and gain.

Look at what is happening in Gaza, and both sides are in on this genocide. Listen to me, Israel double tapped journalists who worked for Reuters, and do you know how the headline read?

They tell you we don’t have money for food, shelter, and basic needs, but we have so much we give a lot to Israel, who does have those things covered. And we give them weapon deals that bomb children. We can’t afford to feed them, but we can afford to bomb them.

And right or left I know we are ALL tired of war. You have to stop falling for the two archetypes who have never throughout history saved us.

The “strongman” authoritarian will crush everyone. The “I’ll save you performative prince” will say all the right things, and stab you in the back.

What would actually lower costs (the stuff that threatens donors)

• Crack market power: block/undo mergers that shrink head-to-head competition (see: Kroger–Albertsons).
• Shine light on margins: sustained oversight where margins surged and stayed high — so prices come down when input costs do. (Yes, some are finally falling; no, not enough.)
• Build the missing supply: especially housing, where scarcity gives owners automatic pricing power.
• Use targeted public options & bargaining: e.g., drug-price negotiation and transparent network rates in health care.
• Kill perverse incentives: end policy and tax perks that reward consolidation and financial engineering over production.

Tax the billionaires, who are behind all of this fucking mess.

Go ask those who joined Bacon’s rebellion if those riches ever trickled down. Obviously not because here we are. And the choices we are left with are outright hatred and cruelty, or a hushed, performative version. One side tells you outright, the other has charisma and flowery bullshit.

Both parties point us at different villains while the same concentrated markets set prices. The Fed rate hikes tax the whole economy, but the real fix is boring and unpopular with donors: more competition, more supply, and fewer choke points. Until that’s the agenda, we’ll keep paying more while they keep pointing fingers.

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3. Crime and public safety

On crime, the two parties sell very different vibes — but when you look under the hood, you see two distinct playbooks with a small-but-real overlap.

How they handle crime & public safety (in practice)

Republicans (current era)

• Lead with punitive tools: longer sentences, bail crackdowns, and big promises to “restore order,” plus strong alignment with expanding police powers and shielding officers from lawsuits. Recent GOP platform language is explicit about “replenishing Police Departments” and “protecting Officers,” with a heavy law-and-order frame.
• Push high-visibility “toughness” moves (e.g., federal pressure campaigns on jurisdictions with cashless bail; sweeping “crime bills”) that emphasize force over social supports.

Democrats (current era)

• The both/and approach: more police and prevention. Biden’s “Safer America Plan” proposes hiring 100k officers and billions for community violence intervention (CVI) and justice reform pilots; American Rescue Plan dollars have also bankrolled CVI and non-police responses in many cities. At the same time, Dems pushed the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act (accountability, data, curbing qualified immunity) — though it stalled in the Senate.

Bottom line on approaches:

Republicans lean punitive/visibility; Democrats lean prevention-plus-policing with reform planks — but many blue cities still grew police budgets, so the split is more about emphasis than a total fork in the road. (And both sides absolutely use the issue for optics.)

Does meeting basic needs reduce crime?

Short answer: a lot of the best evidence says yes — especially for property and youth violence — and it’s often cheaper than cages.

Receipts:

• Health care access: Medicaid expansions are repeatedly linked to lower violent/property crime and fewer arrests; among the formerly incarcerated, expansion is associated with lower mortality and recidivism.
• Food security (SNAP): Smoothing/staggering benefit timing cuts theft; studies show crime drops when SNAP is structured to reduce “end-of-month hunger spikes.”
• Cash & income supports: Randomized and quasi-experimental work (e.g., summer youth jobs in Chicago) shows big reductions in violent arrests; broader income supports (EITC, targeted cash) are associated with less violence/risky behavior.
• So yes — meeting basic needs is one of the most cost-effective safety strategies we’ve got. It shrinks desperation, stabilizes households, and keeps people in treatment and work.

“But what about policing — does anything actually work?”

Some targeted strategies do help when used well (and without abusive tactics):

• Hot-spots policing: focusing resources on a tiny set of high-crime blocks reduces crime without blanket crackdowns.
• Focused deterrence (aka Group Violence Intervention): coordinated, surgical pressure on the small networks driving shootings — paired with real services — consistently shows meaningful violence reductions across cities.
• Gun policy: The evidence is mixed by policy, but RAND’s synthesis finds moderate evidence that broad background checks can reduce firearm homicides; some other measures also show promise. (Details vary by state design.)

The “actually works” recipe (non-performative)

Lower the heat: fund health care, housing, food, and targeted income supports where violence concentrates.

Be precise with enforcement: hot-spots + focused deterrence, not dragnet crackdowns.

Treat gun violence as a systems problem: pair CVI with evidence-backed gun policies.

Measure what matters: track margins and outcomes (did shootings fall? court appearance rates? evictions? ER visits?) and shift money toward what moves those needles.

The compassionate route is often the most effective and cheapest route. Republicans sell toughness; Democrats sell balance and reform; both do plenty of theater. If we want real safety, the data keeps pointing to basic-needs investments + targeted, accountable policing — less chest-thumping, more results.

If the “cruel” model usually costs more and works worse, why keep doing it? Because the goal isn’t efficiency. It’s power.

Here’s the incentive stack both parties dip into (different branding, same mechanics):

The real goals behind costly cruelty

Deterrence theater

TV optics of “toughness” signal control. Leaders fear being blamed for one bad headline more than they value quiet, cost-effective outcomes. So they buy visible punishment, not invisible prevention.

Patronage & profit

Contracts for detention, surveillance tech, and prosecutions create reliable revenue streams and friendly donors. Budgets become habits; agencies and vendors lobby to keep the tap open.

Labor discipline

A precarious, deportable workforce pushes down wages and chills organizing. That benefits large employers; blaming immigrants keeps workers fighting each other, not the wage-setting class.

Base mobilization

Fear (on the right) and moral performance (on the left) both raise money and turnout. Compassionate, boring fixes don’t juice fundraising emails.

Bureaucratic inertia

Agencies are built around beds, case loads, and headcount. “Use it or lose it” budgeting rewards spending over solving. Changing course threatens missions, jobs, and status.

Cost externalization

The feds get the “tough” headlines while states, counties, hospitals, shelters, and schools eat the downstream costs. When no one owns the full ledger, waste survives.

Ideology & moral licensing

Punitive policy is framed as virtue: “law and order,” “sovereignty,” “sending a message.” Once moralized, evidence takes a back seat.

Path dependence & gatekeeping

Quotas, statutory minima, procurement rules, and powerful committees make the cruel option the default. Compassion has to fight uphill every budget cycle.

Bottom line: Cruelty “pays” in political optics, donor returns, and control, even while it costs the public more and delivers worse outcomes.

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4. Government spending and deficit

Different costumes, same stage.

Republicans sell tax cuts that “pay for themselves” (they don’t). Democrats sell investments “paid for” with rosy savings (sometimes real, sometimes baseline magic).

Both juice the numbers with sunsets, gimmicks, and debt-ceiling theater — while the bill lands on us. Fix the rules (no OCO/CHIMPs, honest scoring, keep IRS funding) and you fix half the “deficit fight” overnight.

TAX. THE. RICH. It’s so easy, friends. If Jeff Bezos doesn’t want share his billions that he wouldn’t have without his workers, then Jeff Bezos can fund welfare programs and safety nets. The right and left voters share the same enemy, and it’s not each other. ❤

When billion-dollar corporations pay starvation wages, the rest of us foot the bill twice — once in lost tax revenue, and again in public assistance for their underpaid workers.

You can be red, blue, or purple — but if you work for a living, you’re paying for the billionaire class twice over. That’s the real deficit we should care about.

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5. Culture Wars

The right uses things like abortion and gay rights against us to keep us divided. It’s under the guise of Christian Nationalism. And these aren’t people who do for the least of these as Jesus taught. They are the pharisees and Jesus would be overturning their tables.

I can’t blame Democrats for the Christian Nationalism, but I can say they have used identity as a prop for too long. Yes, gay marriage passed under Obama, but it was never codified into law. They need that issue to drive fear in you to get you to the voting booth.

Make no mistake, we are in a fascist takeover. And this is on republicans.

People to research:

~Curtis Yarvin

~Elon Musk

~Jeff Bezos

~Peter Thiel

And how they all connect to JD Vance, who hates Trump. And who can’t wait to take his place. These people collapse urgency and play the long game. The reason the left always loses is because it’s not the left at all.

The two party system is a designed illusion.

Look at this:

A Dark Money Group Is Secretly Funding High-Profile Democratic Influencers

This is why it’s hard for me to find patience sometimes. Because the right wants to point to Clinton, the left points to Trump, and Clinton and Trump are laughing together behind closed doors. Lock them all up.

Hacked emails from former Israeli PM Ehud Barak show some interesting contacts with Jeffrey Epstein and even Peter Thiel. Island Visit is the subject of one email chain, discussing how Barak is coming to the island & trying to leave his security guys behind.

Epstein discusses meetings with Peter Thiel and references the IDF.

Inside Jeffrey Epstein's spy industry connections

Democratic friends, I know it hurts. As great as it feels to see Gavin Newsom sling shit, it’s still shit. And it’s performative. They all wallow in the shit together, and want us to root for one side over the other.

To dance like monkeys.

And conservatives, please, stop running on the feelings, and face the facts:

How was an alleged Israeli 'child sex predator' allowed to leave the US?

Culture wars aren’t just moral fights — they’re profit centers and power plays. The same billionaires funding “Christian values” candidates are also investing in tech, media, and influence operations on both sides of the aisle.

You wanted to get upset with the left who cried foul at Sydney Sweeney, but then threw a fit at Cracker Barrel. This is a time for us to self-reflect. They are doing this shit on purpose. You have to see past this.

• Right: weaponizes religion, abortion, and LGBTQ rights under Christian nationalism.
• Left: uses identity politics without delivering structural protection (ex: never codifying marriage equality).
• Overlap: both keep the issues alive because fear drives turnout and donations.

People like Yarvin and Thiel aren’t thinking about the next election — they’re thinking 20 years ahead. The left keeps fighting for today’s headlines; the right invests in systems that will still be in place long after the headlines fade.

The culture war is the distraction. The oligarchy is the constant. And until we see that, we’re all just dancing for the same two masters.

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So, let’s talk about the club that Vance founded in 2019. It’s called the Rockbridge Network — basically an invite-only donor “club” co-founded by J.D. Vance and conservative publisher Chris Buskirk.

Think “political venture capital firm” for the MAGA era: small circle of wealthy investors pooling money to fund media, turnout ops, legal fights, and a “government-in-waiting.”

Rockbridge isn’t just another donor group — it’s a war room for building a parallel conservative government. If you don’t know about it, that’s by design. Because this is the game plan:

• 💰 Money & Infrastructure — Rockbridge Network, 1789 Capital, dark money donors
• 🧠 Ideas & Playbook — Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025
• ✝ Base Building — Christian nationalist orgs
• 🏛 Power Grab — Civil service purge via Schedule F

What it is (and who’s in it)

• Founders: J.D. Vance & Chris Buskirk; launched in 2019.
• Nature: Centralized donor network that steers a cluster of groups (most with low public footprint).
• Backers reported: Tech/finance figures aligned with Trump-world, incl. Peter Thiel, Rebekah Mercer, Blake Masters, Omeed Malik. (Rockbridge doesn’t publicly disclose its donors.)
• Size & price: 150–200 members; 2024 budget ~$70–80M; membership $100k–$1M depending on tier, per the group’s prospectus.

What it funds/does

From internal prospectus & memos:

• Media + polling: Through entities like Firebrand Action and a charitable account called Revitalization Partners to support right-wing investigative content and polling.
• Turnout operations: Better Tomorrow and Over the Horizon focused on GOTV in battleground states; Faithful in Action aims to recruit churchgoers into political activism.
• High-profile access: At the April 2024 Palm Beach retreat, Trump called in during his New York trial; other speakers included Susie Wiles and Leonard Leo. (A separate NBC report also described the Mar-a-Lago get-together.)
• Strategic goal: Build a “new conservative ecosystem” (media, lawfare, policy, turnout) and replace older GOP institutions — NYT first surfaced this plan in 2022; The Verge summarized it at the time.

Offshoots & spinoffs

• 1789 Capital: At a 2022 Rockbridge summit, Buskirk, Mercer, Malik, et al. began plotting a “parallel economy” fund, eventually 1789 Capital (≈$150M), which later invested $15M in Tucker Carlson’s company. Donald Trump Jr. joined 1789 in late 2024.

Vance’s current link

• The prospectus listed Vance as co-founder; Reuters reported he later had no formal role but informal ties and spoke at the April retreat to >100 donors.

“Club” vibe, not to be confused with his VC firm

• Media sometimes describes Rockbridge as a private donor club with six-figure buy-ins and closed-door summits — distinct from Narya Capital (the venture fund Vance co-founded in 2019).

Rockbridge is a small, high-dollar donor network Vance co-founded in 2019 to professionalize and centralize Trump-aligned political projects — media, lawfare, and turnout — backed by tech-world money and run through a web of low-profile entities.

It’s exclusive, expensive, and strategically designed to move the ecosystem — not just one race.

There is no credible reporting that Democrats are members of the Rockbridge Network. Everything in the record describes it as a conservative, Trump-aligned donor club, founded by J.D. Vance and Chris Buskirk, with backers like Peter Thiel and Rebekah Mercer.

It’s invite-only and doesn’t publish a member list, but the documents and sources reporters obtained point squarely right-ward.

The “tech bros,” Christian-nationalist groups, and dark-money think tanks aren’t one monolith — but they are operating like a coalition with complementary roles. Project 2025 is the glue-and-blueprint.

How they’re working together (the division of labor)

Money + infrastructure (tech/finance donors).

• Silicon-Valley–adjacent donor clubs and VC funds bankroll the ecosystem — media, turnout ops, legal fights, and “government-in-waiting” talent pipelines. Example: the Rockbridge Network, co-founded by J.D. Vance, pools millions for right-wing media and GOTV
• A parallel “patriot VC” lane (1789 Capital) has pumped money into conservative media/tech and, this year, into prediction markets — with Donald Trump Jr. as a partner/advisor.
• On the legal side, Leonard Leo’s network sits atop a historic $1.6B dark-money war chest shaping courts and causes.

Ideas + playbook (think tanks).

• Heritage’s Project 2025 supplies the detailed “how-to”: a 900-page Mandate for Leadership, a personnel database, and training to rapidly take over agencies. Heritage itself boasts 100+ coalition partners around the plan.

Base-building + moral frame (Christian-nationalist orgs).

• Movement groups and allied legal outfits push a narrative that the U.S. should privilege Christianity in law and policy; surveys show ~3 in 10 Americans as adherents/sympathizers — big enough to power a party faction.

Personnel + power-grab (inside government).

• The strategy depends on re-classifying tens of thousands of civil servants (the “Schedule F” idea) so they can be replaced with loyalists; the White House has already moved to restore a version of it.

Net: donors fund the rails, think tanks write the script, Christian-nationalist groups deliver a fired-up base, and the Schedule-F/“unitary executive” push makes it operational.

What Project 2025 ultimately does — even to many who voted for it

1) Concentrates power at the top, weakens worker leverage.

• Mass politicization of the civil service (Schedule F) + attacks on federal unions and labor boards mean less whistleblowing, less continuity, and weaker bargaining power — including for veterans, rural federal workers, and contractors who often lean Republican. Recent actions to cancel federal union contracts preview that direction.

2) Shrinks health coverage and raises household risk.

• Analyses and recent legislation tied to the agenda project large coverage losses (e.g., deep Medicaid cuts and ACA rollbacks — CBO-style estimates put losses in the tens of millions). That hits rural hospitals and older/working-class voters hardest.

3) Dismantles federal education support.

• The plan explicitly targets the Department of Education for elimination/reassignment. Independent reviews warn this would gut Title I and special-needs supports that disproportionately flow to poor, rural, and small-town districts — the very places many supporters live. The administration has already moved to wind DOE down.

4) Uses federal power to enforce a minority moral code.

• Project 2025’s coalition promotes nationwide abortion restrictions via aggressive use of the Comstock Act and broader rollbacks on reproductive and LGBTQ rights — policies that poll as unpopular even among many right-leaning independents.

5) Hardwires policy through courts and rule-changes.

• With courts already shifted, rules get rewritten to privilege favored groups and deregulate allies (fossil fuels, privatized education, etc.), while making it harder for future Congresses to unwind.

6) Keeps voters busy with culture-war spectacle while costs stay high.

• The blueprint is heavy on centralizing authority and light on structural fixes for prices, housing, and health care — so everyday costs don’t fall, but surveillance, prosecutions, and politicized agencies expand. (Civil-liberties groups have flagged this exact tradeoff.)

They’re running a four-part machine: tech/finance money → Heritage/think-tank blueprints → Christian-nationalist mobilization → civil-service purge to lock it in. Project 2025 is not about serving “forgotten Americans”; it’s about consolidating executive power and imposing a maximal agenda — one that, in practice, strips protections, shrinks services (health/education), and weakens worker leverage including for many who voted for it.

This isn’t “draining the swamp.” It’s draining your school, your hospital, and your job security — while handing more power to a handful of billionaire donors.

This is all very Pluto in Aquarius for us to learn tech bros are in charge.

But Pluto doesn’t just crown power; it exposes and restructures it:

• Shadow (early phase): techno-oligarchy, surveillance capitalism, AI hype as policy, “platforms > publics,” CEO-as-king vibes.
• The turn (mid phase): antitrust fights, worker organizing in tech, open-source/federated alternatives, data-rights pushes, public digital infrastructure. Pluto grinds — for a decade. It breaks what’s rotten and repours the mold.

Aquarius isn’t “tech bros”; it’s networks. That cuts both ways. Yes, venture-funded empires. But also co-ops, mutual aid, data unions, right-to-repair, municipal broadband, civic tech, and communities refusing performance politics. The lesson isn’t “they rule everything,” it’s “whoever owns the network rules — so build different networks.”

Pluto in Aquarius is here to reveal who’s really running things. And unless we learn to see through the performance, we’re going to wake up in a country run like a private company — owned by tech bros, bankrolled by dark money, and managed for profit, not people.

We’ve seen the outlines of who’s building the new machine — tech bros, dark money, Christian nationalists — but Pluto’s next move isn’t just to crown them. It’s to dig, expose, and force a rebuild.

Pluto is about to go out of bounds.

What “out of bounds” means

• A planet is out of bounds (OOB) when its declination (how far north/south it is from the celestial equator) goes beyond the Sun’s max (~±23°26′). That puts it “outside the Sun’s jurisdiction,” so it tends to act more extreme / non-conforming.

When Pluto goes out of bounds it does so either northward or southward. In this case it’s a southward trajectory over the next decade.

Pluto’s timing (now → next decade)

• Pluto goes OOB-south at month-end: it crosses the threshold around Aug 29–31, 2025 (hitting ~-23°27′), then returns in-bounds late Nov 2025.
• This isn’t a one-off. It will dip in and out of OOB every year for ~a decade (2025–2035) — a rare phase; the last Pluto OOB series ended in 1953.

Why Pluto OOB matters (and why “southward” is interesting)

• Pluto is transformation, power, extraction, underworld economies. OOB Pluto = those themes operating past the usual guardrails — more radical exposures, more uncompromising restructures, and sharper edges to collective power struggles.
• Several researchers tracking Pluto OOB in southern declination link it with imperial reform/decline and power devolving to smaller networks or local actors — which fits our Pluto-in-Aquarius era (systems, tech, networks). Treat this as informed interpretation, not settled science.

How this lands in real life (2025 kick-off → 2035)

• Expect spikes of “rule-breaking” Plutonian events during each OOB window: abrupt reveals (data leaks, financial/governance scandals), hard pivots in tech governance, and grassroots power re-wiring that bypasses old institutions. (OOB outer planets often coincide with revolutionary phases; Pluto does it less often but for longer when it does.)
• Because this first stretch is OOB-south, the vibe is descent/ excavation: digging up buried material in institutions and supply chains; surfacing what’s been repressed; less patience for glossy “performance” and more for raw truth.

Quick dates you can track (this year)

• Aug 29–31, 2025: threshold crossing into OOB-south.
• Late Nov 2025: Pluto returns in-bounds. (Then repeats annually through the early 2030s.)

The last time Pluto spent a decade going out of bounds, the postwar order was being rewritten: the start of the Cold War, decolonization movements across Africa and Asia, McCarthyism’s height and collapse.

Pluto in Aquarius — and especially out of bounds — means we’re not just watching systems change, we’re inside the pressure cooker. Pay attention to who controls your access to information, resources, and connection. And if you don’t like who owns it — build a different network.

Pluto in America’s 3rd house (Aquarius)

In the Sibly chart, Pluto moving through Aquarius lights up the 3rd house: information, media, schools, local transport, neighbors/alliances at the “street level,” and the way we speak to one another.

Flavor:

• Power struggles over speech & data. Who owns distribution (platforms, pipes, algorithms), who gets silenced vs. amplified, and how “truth” is verified. Expect exposures, leaks, and aggressive attempts to centralize/control the information commons — followed by demands to rebuild it differently.
• Education & basic infrastructure as battlegrounds. K-12 fights, library wars, local transit/roads/rail funding — all get Plutonian “tear it down to rebuild it” energy.
• Neighborhood → nation. The tone of local boards, school districts, and city councils scales up; community networks (co-ops, mutual aid, local media) become real power, not just vibe.

(OOB Pluto spikes these themes: more uncompromising reveals, fewer “soft” edits. Think excavation rather than optics.)

Uranus crossing the 7th, then Rx to the 6th

7th house (Gemini): treaties, open rivals, diplomacy, how we partner or oppose on the world stage.

6th house (Taurus): labor, public servants, health systems, the day-to-day machinery that keeps a country running (from food supply to civil service).

Flavor:

• Into the 7th: jolts and pivots in alliances, border agreements, and trade routes. Fast re-wiring of “who we’re with and on what terms,” plus wildcard negotiations with neighbors/partners.
• Back into the 6th (Rx): those external shocks boomerang inward as workforce/health/service disruptions — labor actions, automation fights, civil-service shakeups, food and logistics volatility.

Saturn–Neptune: Pisces ↔ Aries conjunction cycle

These two define the myth + institution dial: what we believe collectively and what we’re willing to build around it.

In late Pisces: dissolving stale institutions, blurring lines (church/state, public/private), floods literal and figurative — insurance, water, homelessness, addiction, mental health, borders. It’s the great de-glossing phase.

Conjoining at 0° Aries (then in early Aries): the “new charter” moment — hard choices, first-principles frameworks, actual builds to replace what just melted. Aries isn’t performative; it says: choose, start, commit.

In the U.S. chart this overlays the 4th/5th axis: homeland/land/base (4th) → children/education/creative economy/speculation (5th). Expect housing/land-use and disaster resilience to meet big resets in education, youth policy, and the culture/creator markets.

How these threads braid (the big picture)

• Info regime reset (Pluto 3rd) + Myth/Institution reset (Saturn–Neptune): the narratives that glued America together are being audited, and the pipes those narratives travel through are being rebuilt.
• Allies → labor (Uranus 7th → 6th): rapid foreign pivots force domestic retooling — of the workforce, civil service, public health, and food/energy systems.
• Less performance, more receipts: South Node marching toward Leo starves “politics as theater.” The country gets increasingly allergic to spin; it wants results, proof, and local competence.

What to watch (translation to lived life)

• School boards, libraries, local journalism, and transit debates are not small — they’re Pluto-level levers now.
• Labor (teachers, nurses, logistics, government workers) is the hinge that decides whether foreign/tech shifts help or hurt daily life.
• Housing, water, mental health, and youth policy are where Saturn–Neptune insists we build real containers, not slogans.

What we can do:

1) Adopt a harm-reduction + power-building rule.

• In any race, ask: “Will my vote materially reduce harm this year?” If yes, cast the harm-reduction vote.
• Then put most of your energy (time, $10 chunks, posts, volunteering) into power-building: primaries, down-ballot, issue fights, and local institutions that actually move material outcomes.

This keeps you from white-knuckling over one corporate candidate while still stacking wins where they’re possible.

2) Fight where your effort is unfairly powerful (local party + tiny offices).

• Run for or recruit someone for county committee / district leader / precinct slots. These low-turnout positions influence endorsements, judges, ballot access, and who gets oxygen — often with just a handful of signatures/votes. In New York, district leaders and county committees really do shape who gets on slates and who gets resources.
• If you’re not in NY, the precinct/county committee route still applies — every state has a version, and it’s the cheapest point of entry to change endorsements from the inside.

3) Use the election system’s quirks to your advantage.

• Fusion voting (NY & a few states): Minor parties can cross-endorse; votes on their line count for the candidate but send a message about which agenda you’re backing (e.g., Working Families Party). It’s one of the few legal ways to signal “not your corporate line” on the ballot.
• Ranked-choice (where it exists): In places like NYC municipal primaries, RCV lets you rank a real left candidate #1 without “spoiling,” and still block your last choice.

4) Target the races that change daily life fastest.

Top-of-ticket gets headlines; down-ballot sets prices and freedoms: DA, sheriff, judges, school board, city council, state legislature, utility commissions. These are winnable, pressure-sensitive, and often decided by hundreds of votes.

5) Build the non-electoral muscle that makes politicians follow.

• Union + workplace wins: nothing moves policy like organized labor in an election year.
• Mutual aid & local media: they create “receipts” voters trust and make performance politics look silly by comparison.
• Ballot measures: where your state allows it, initiatives on housing, healthcare access, voting methods, or public broadband can leapfrog reluctant parties.

6) Create a 10-minute voting rubric so you never feel trapped again.

Make a simple scorecard for every race:

• Red lines: corporate PAC $, union-busting, war-drum votes, police-accountability positions, reproductive rights.
• Green lines: concrete deliverables (not vibes): housing permits built, clinic expansions, labor endorsements, public-option stances, antitrust votes.
• If candidates fail the rubric, you: (a) primary them, (b) vote third-line where legal, or © leave that line blank while still voting the rest of the ballot. You’ll feel clean, not checked out.

7) Pick one structural reform to champion for a year.

Examples: RCV/STAR voting statewide, ban pay-to-play appointments, public financing expansion, or opening party committees. Even one reform in one city shifts power long-term. (NYC’s public financing + RCV changed who could run and win; it’s documented.)

Saturn–Neptune in Pisces has been a masterclass in empathy vs. enabling. Compassion ≠ saying yes to everything. Sometimes love is a boundary. Sometimes spirituality is a “no.” Pisces dissolves what’s fraudulent.

That’s why the costume jewelry of institutional religion has been tarnishing in real time. Faith ≠ control. Devotion ≠ domination. If it can’t survive transparency, it wasn’t holy.

Nervous-system angle: unregulated empathy is a fawn response. Regulated empathy has capacity + consent. One drains you to prove you’re good; the other lets you do good without disappearing yourself.

As Saturn & Neptune boomerang back toward Aries and eventually meet at 0° (the “world axis”), we’re asked to build new containers for care. Not vibes — infrastructure. Clinics, classrooms, paychecks, water systems. Receipts.

Aries asks: what “rugged individualism” actually works… and what’s just abandonment with a hero filter? We can’t raise joyful kids in a culture that treats childhood like a private luxury purchase.

Translation:

the age of performative religion + performative politics is fading. The mandate is functional care. Food that arrives. Schools that heal. Health care that doesn’t bankrupt. Boundaries that keep everyone safer.

Personal practice:

• Notice where “empathy” has turned into exhaustion.
• Replace martyrdom with mutuality: “I love you and I need X to stay resourced.”
• Trade solo grind for small, real networks (neighbors, co-ops, PTAs, unions, faith communities that practice consent).

Pisces taught discernment in compassion. Aries demands builds. Less theatrical holiness, more holy logistics. That’s how we give kids happy childhoods — and adults nervous systems that don’t live in red alert.

While the right often grounds its policies in certain moral or national ideals, the impact can be restrictive and exclusionary.

The left often frames its politics as inclusive and empathetic, but the impact can be stagnant, performative, or overly bureaucratic.

Neither party will save us until we force them to or replace them with non-corporate candidates. No matter where we fall on the political spectrum, we’re all navigating the same economic squeeze. And when our nervous systems are dysregulated, it’s easier for them to pit us against each other.

I’m sitting with my own tribalism — where it’s rooted in real values and boundaries, and where it’s just the ego wanting to be right. Because they want us chasing superiority instead of solidarity. I don’t want to be better than you. I want us to win together.

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