"Demoralized" is a good way of describing the American public.
They have little experience with a functional national government and have ceased to expect it.
Their leaders rarely show any willingness to deal with important issues, preferring to tilt at windmills over TikTok or whatever. Stuff just randomly happens because the SCOTUS said so or because lobbyists bribed Congress. Oh, and Trump got away with crimes again because he's rich and they're not.
And the media are willfully useless.
Americans feel increasingly powerless because the rich and powerful can do whatever they want.
Republicans just break shit and make it legal retroactively.
The Democratic response is a Rube Goldberg machine that requires 50 years of winning every election, replacing every member of the judiciary as they retire, Congressional supermajorities, and a solar eclipse for good luck.
Yeah, you can vote, but at the national level, you're often voting for the same people who have been in office for decades and have shown neither the willingness nor the competence to take on any of these problems.
But Nancy Pelosi just made a cool $5 million from her Nvidia stock options.
That's nice, isn't it?
At the state level, Democrats do sometimes amaze even with thin majorities because they apparently didn't get the memo they're supposed to punt on "culture war" issues and pretend everything is fine.
Meanwhile, how many times do people have to call Congress begging Democrats not to do something evil like KOSA?
Why do AIPAC and anti-LGBT+ groups have more say than we do?
Oh, right, those groups have a shit load of money and all we have are our votes, and we have to vote blue no matter who.
The #Green Party of #BC under a confidence and supply agreement formed government with the New Democratic Party of BC in 2017 .
For 2 years the coalition cooperatively rolled out dozens of large, nation-altering legislation including implementing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Much of the #progressive and #environmental work was required by #GPBC, which the #NDPBC acknowledges.
No, we do not have to vote blue.
The people who keep telling us this are the people not acting on our behalf. Because we believe them, and vote for them.
Vote your conscience. Always. Because research shows that strategic voting does not work.
And you will still respect yourself the day after the results are known.
@gwynnion - Yeah, it sucks.
Got a better idea that doesn't amount to "trust the rich and powerful - but different rich and powerful"?
Because that's what everything except "vote the bastards out" is.
@gwynnion SCOTUS just basically opened the door for major dictator like overreach, There isn't much disagreement on that point. Biden openly admits he sees it that way! But, use that power to fix things?! Nah, better not, I guess. Better just see how it plays out.
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