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"Vote for Democrats to stop Trump! They're the only ones who will stand up for you and what America stands for!"
[Votes to approve Trump's picks, some unanimously despite questioning them intensely]
So how many times are the voters going to be fooled by Lucy holding the football before we organize a new party?
If I can't trust my fucking senators in a solid blue state to not vote yes on Trump's bootlicking cabinet picks, who can I vote for? I can't vote third party, they don't win. I can't vote progressives, they get ratfucked on local and federal elections.
I vote on local propositions, the side with more money wins than anything good. My state kept prison slavery labor, increase punishments for "stealing" food and small life necessities, and turned down laws to help increase the minimum wage and rent control policies.
Fucking neoliberal NIMBYs and their consequences have been a disaster for anything good in the human condition.
I've been so disillusioned by American politics I have to wonder if the media is just one big brainwashing operation that Orwell wishes he could never dream of as a nightmare to warn us about.
The only hope, if there's any hope at all, is to get out and promote actual progressives in the primaries and kick out the "center left" assholes that are helping Trump. That,of course, assumes there will ever be anymore elections.