There’s no organizing potential in the USA at all. Everyone only thinks social democrats are the most radical option. Reddit third-worldists call me evil for being born here. I’m scum for being born in this country. I know it at this point, I’m evil for benefitting from imperialism, we’re all labor aristocrats, so why bother? I don’t even feel the strength to get out of bed anymore. I just want to lay here until I die or until I get evicted and die on the streets. I’m to scared to kill myself, so may as well. I’m just so tired of everything, of seeing the rights of my closest friends being peeled away and there being no viable way to stop it because, again, everyone here only thinks voting is the way out.
100% this. With thoughts, words, and deeds, often moment by moment, until you get the hang of it. And those old patterns are ingrained, and will try to drag you back into it. So daily check-ins, reframing thoughts, correcting self-talk is a must, if not more often.