Some more criticisms and stalwart determination and possible to-dos coming -from- Tropical Soulvangelical -for- Tropical Soulvangelical. So first of all, why the radio silence for the past two weeks or so? At least when he's not going after Mark Cuban and George Clooney. Well, as fatalistic as most of the activists were, TSV wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt just in case they were right and he was wrong. In any case, they still had important work to do. But that phase of things being over, he sees that they failed -precisely because- of their fatalism, which is TSV's criticism here. There were also too many texts being sent, and TSV thanks his lucky stars that he still has minutes on his flip, because he doesn't go with the bourgesie-ish smartphone ideal from a big provider offering "unlimited." TSV can go into detail about phone differences being cultural differences, maybe in a yet -another- base share, but let's go after fatalism. TSV talked about in the last base share about the folly of fatalism, but he wants to drive home the point that fatalism only results in a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's happened in 2004 and it happened 20 years later, so by that standard alone nothing has changed. That thing about "don't regret not doing more" TSV sees as causing people to end up doing less because guilt is such a poor motivator to get people to do anything. On those rare occasions people are guilted into "doing more" it's only with going through the motions. Of those 90,000 volunteers Kamala had on her staff, TSV can't point to even one who only acted out of guilt. As far as he can see, they all believed in what they did and nobody had to tell them to do things. But the biggest driver of fatalism in our overly westernized culture were the texts. Those texts that said "say goodbye to Kamala emergency in Pennsylvania" were just counterproductive. TSV's sick and tired of hearing style-over-substance type phrases such as "circular firing squad" or "snatching defeat from the jaws of victory," but look at that last one. It's the texts and their fatalism and the more fatalistic activism that snatched fatalistic defeat from the jaws of sincerely stalwart victory, not those actors borne of stalwart determination and pragmatism. As far as a circular firing squad is concerned, TSV saw the first shots in that squad coming from Bob DeNiro standing outside the -trumptrial- back in the spring, and more from the antibidens in that time. Those TSV observed were -unprovoked-. Nobody made Bob DeNiro kill the -trumptrial- in its last 48 hours when they already had it in the bag, and the reasons why TSV saw DeNiro doing so were westernized-cultural. We're just too westernized to make things work in as simple a manner as possible. That's why you need to embrace Tropical Soul as your ultimate best destiny. Those who stood by Biden and still do so now like TSV were pushing back against the fatalists and antibidens because it was doing so that was for democracy, and that's hardly a "circular firing squad." Fatalism and antibiden TSV observes this year as inviting undemocracy. The other thing you need to do besides following the righteous path of tropical soul is -not invite undemocracy-. TSV's also not using Rachel Maddow's todo list, because he already has his own, tentatively. It includes protecting affordable care, reproductive choice, alliances around the world and free and fair elections in defiance of the progressive prediction of no-more-elections, and doing all of this in the most stalwart pragmatic manner possible conserving Tropical Soul and the righteous path therein.