Voters: “Please stop funding a genocidal regime”

Dems: “Nah, we’re going to stay the course. And how dare you speak out against it!”

Yes, Trump has been harder on anti-genocide protestors, but it definitely started under Biden’s term.

If we still have elections in the upcoming years, it would be fantastic for people like AOC to run for public office all around the nation.

In fact if you are in a position to, I would encourage everyone reading this to take a moment to look up your state’s candidate filing procedures and see how you can try taking an official’s job that they’re not doing. Just because you may not have the millions in funding doesn’t mean you can’t or won’t have a shot at winning.

Just like when waltz was popular he got sidelined/muzzled and anything that polled well for the Kamala campaign got dropped.

Almost like there’s a pattern

Yes, unfortunately, I fear, the US has been a plutocracy for a long time.

I think it’s time for US citizens to admit that and change it for good. Of course, I’m fully aware that many Lemmy users have long realized this.

I really don’t want to offend anyone with this obvious statement, but it’s simply a fact that many people in the USA have been living like in a third world country for a very long time - even though the US is one of the richest countries in the world.

The reason for this is very obvious: shameless enrichment of the rich and powerful - hardly any difference to Russia imo - more humane means so far, yes, but the effect is basically the same.

This is not meant as an insult at all. I just can’t believe how obvious the corruption in the USA is: Even in the highest offices. People like the President himself or Clarence Thomas obviously no longer feelt the need to be ashamed of anything - they don’t even try to keep any of their criminal activities even remotely secret.

Our system is certainly not perfect and we also have major problems with the resurgence of fascist parties, but this level of open corruption in the USA is simply unbelievable: the shameless insider deals of the president, the unscrupulousness of constitutional judges who so obviously rule against the constitution!

Unconditional immunity for presidents? Imprisonment of innocent people without die process? Wild - only in failed States!

You really don’t have to be an expert in constitutional law to realize that any even halfway decent democratic constitution would of course rigorously rule all this out.

I myself can only observe this from afar and helplessly feel sorry for all good and rational thinking US citizen.

Of course, I have no solutions. Only the obvious warning that the US institutions have long been corrupted.

I wish you all the best and try to contribute at least something from afar - but unfortunately I have little hope, because I believe that the US system is broken beyond repair.