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The Washington establishment is called that precisely because it has been legitimized and established. If you want to delegitimize it, that could serve as the first step to achieve a solution. I'm not saying our views are even contrasting, our methodology is.
Spreading the good word doesn't mean much when there's nothing that follows. No plan, no suggested actions, just small groups struggling to do what they can. All we can presently do is slow the bleeding. Getting tired of bleeding doesn't mean to just stop holding the wound.
Sure. Just for clarification, cuz many americans don't seem to understand this but the dems or reps don't encompass the entirety of "the left wing" or "the right wing", both are effectively right wing with one being relatively more left leaning. Not liking one party isn't an endorsement of the other. Because a strictly 2-party state like the US is designed to encourage polarisation and lack nuance within the general public. Plus in other countries other parties aren't interconnected with each other, except maybe countries with fake democracies like Russia and Singapore.
And centrism, outside of America isn't "taking both sides", the UK lib dem party for example is centre-left, slightly further to the left than the ruling labour party which has recently shifted further to the right although being way further to the left than them in the past. The conservative party is about as right wing as the democrats and the mostly fringe far-right reform party is basically like the republicans. What your politics are shouldn't be based on any party, its about your ideals, what is left or right wing isn't dictated by parties, instead parties base how far left or right they are based on their ideals.
For example, the labour party, a historically firmly left-wing party (much more than now), under Tony Blair went to war with Iraq with the republicans, proving that a party's actions don't make their actions left or rightwing. The same left-wing party after incessant lobbying from Israel is now unfortunately providing them with weapons and suppressing free speech, after removing their anti-zionist leader.
Personally I disagree with a lot of what's both considered left and right wing, I make my own opinions and reject the categorisation of my beliefs into something linear, but that's just me, cuz whats left and right changes constantly and differs based on country and culture, in america for example, relaxed gun laws are incredibly conservative since it's already something established within society for hundreds of years, in Europe however, the exact same topic is a very left wing and radical stance since they haven't been implemented/are outlawed.
I, like other Europeans naturally have a distrust for politicians and have zero loyalty to any one party.