My spouse is watching The Good Place, and just got to the end of season 3. There’s a scene where one character is explaining to a council of people from heaven that life is so complex nowadays that nobody can get into heaven, and for the last 500 years not a single person can get into heaven.

The council then says they’re going to spend 400 years forming a committee, and then that committee will spend 1000 years forming its own investigative committee to make sure there’s no conflict of interest, THEN they’ll investigate the system to see if there’s a problem.

The first character then exclaims that I those 1400 years before the investigation even starts people will still be going to hell regardless of how good they tried to be.

The committee then states they are “deeply concerned” by that, which got me to start cackling.

The committee sums up my view of democrats.

Even if they are concerned by the daily atrocities and banality of evil, they’re too concerned about doing things “by the book” and too concerned with the status quo changing that they are basically doing nothing. They might think they’re acting swiftly, but the whole time all the people suffering are continuing to suffer.

Even if they are concerned by the daily atrocities and banality of evil

You must not be American. Right now all branches of the Federal Government and the majority of states’ governments are Republican. Democrats have absolutely no power to do anything but talk.

The US isn’t a European style parliament where minority parties have some power.

You’re right that Democrats are near-powerless right now, but it was only a few short years ago when they were in power. Let’s not forget their actions.

When in power, they did not concern themselves with the daily atrocities or the banality of evil.

Their overwhelming support for the genocide in Palestine is just the tip of the banality iceberg.

Student loan forgiveness? Replacing Coal with Solar? Expanded ACA?

All gone under Trump. But both sides bad.