Yeah, busting the rail strike really tipped the hand of the establishment Democratic party to show they still are captured, and the blue-dog ranks are in office not to serve the public or to make specific changes but to get rich by peddling their political power. Given they're negotiating with MAGA more than they're coordinating with progressives and DSA, I'm really expecting some Democratic officials will flip so they can continue exploiting their positions for personal gain.

Heather Cox Richardson notes that this sort of thing has happened before, in which business interests dominated the government and enacted policies that wrecked the economy, but got magnates very rich, but the backlash was a revival of public serving interests. In the case of Roosevelt and the New Deal, there was the threat of communist revolution, as we were also watching what was going on in the Soviet Union, and even communism had to be better than living in homeless encampments and barely surviving on flour paste.

We already have a conspicuous number of homeless encampments, and while we're not yet living on cups of noodles, we can't afford food and fuel at the same time, we're skipping meds, and we're also suffering from food poisoning while watching corruption and money getting poured into an unpopular war where our soldiers and sailors are being unnecessarily treated like shit.

Hopefully things don't have to get much worse before the mischief begins. I suspect we're all hoping the midterms turn out well (and we survive to the new Congress) which might save us from getting our hands dirty. But when there's no hope at all, some of us may realize we really don't have anything else to lose.