what drives me up the wall is how people who aren’t of the left don’t take seriously the threat the left poses. they were handed every public institution without a fight. as far as i can tell, many people here can see the individual trees but don’t realize they form a forest. you engage people like benj because you can’t accept he has no mind of his own, no personality. he is a cell in a larger organism. as extreme as it sounds, there needs to be a systematic effort to clean them out of power and relocate them out of the