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It's almost as if the system is working as intended...
I'm so sick of voting for the least evil. Democrats slowly move things to the left while carefully following the law. Then Republicans come in and smash everything with a sledgehammer.
Revolution is pretty much inevitable. If we can't get what we need to survive legally, it isn't going to be very fun for anyone.
Are you looking at the same country I'm looking at? From the outside it looks like they're a right wing party being dragged gradually rightwards by a far right wing party.
Democrats as a party have never shifted things to the left, they talk one thing while tossing us stale table scraps then vote like Republicans. That's how they've gone from people like Jimmy Carter to denying a genocide, that they are paying for, is occuring. If we overlaid today's political scale with the political scale from 1980, Democrats would be to the far right of Ronald Reagan. 40 years of liberal "lesser evil" has actually been incremental fascism
The revenge will feel cathartic though.
I mean, 2025 elections were a +15 D landslide in New Jersey and Virginia. Nevermind the municipal races.
But the people Dems ended up electing (Governors Mikie Sherrill and Abigail Spanberger) were, for the most part, the same corporate schlubs and military apparatchiks that have been dragging the party down for decades.
Less the problem of "losing", I see a problem of Dems "winning" with a wave of Henry Cuellars and Marie Gluesenkamp Perezes, then folding right in alongside the "moderate Republican" block that's been doing Trumpism via the US Congress for the last 40 years.