there is no law bad enough that the cops won't kill you to enforce it, and no cop bad enough the system won't shield him from accountability

Yeah, that. I think the protests in 2020 and more specifically the police response to them did more to get people to wake up and see the occupying army for what it was than anything I could ever say. Watching it unfold, all I could think was 'this is radicalizing the white people!' In regards to the cognitive dissonance, did you go to public school? At least were I grew up the school system was geared towards churning out workers, not providing you with the skills to reason your way out of a paper bag. I suspect that is deliberate...

Lol, my view of the LP KY is skewed by a friend of mine who feuded with them for years. He was an interesting cat, attempted to renounce his social security number, was always giving the party hell for basically being a tame showpiece opposition party.