Late Stage Capitalism

The Republicans have demonstrated that no, these things do not take time.

They'll give Trump a golden parachute, wish him the best, then continue the ratchet effect. Neo-liberals are as much enemies of democracy as the reactionaries.

Only in amurica would they sell people on the right to be fired for no reason and call it "right to work"

Power is never given, it is taken.

I see a lot of discourse around this theory that when Democrats are in power they’ll reverse everything this regime has done. Yes this is a comforting thought but it’s way too much to expect from the Democratic Party as we know it now.

The Executive branch has been given (and has taken) an extreme amount of power to the point where the balance we once knew is now nonexistent. Does anyone think for one second the next president will just forfeit those gains? What incentive is there? And as we’ve seen and continue to see, who will hold them to account?

My bet is that we’ll see a few easy ‘gimme’ reversals that are enough to enable our slide back into the complacency we so desperately crave.

Republicans turn the wheel counter-clockwise while the Democrats don’t turn it.

This is part of what just erodes the hope out of me. We all know there are periods of regression and periods of progress, but whatever damage is caused by the regression period is

1- Caused much more quickly than any progress.

2- Is usually beneficial to the ruling class, thus they have less of an incentive to fix it.

3- Might just become normalized, at which point you're just starting from square one all over again.

Like, age/identity verification. We are in a period of mass and widespread regression right now and age verification is making progress, eroding freedom and privacy on the internet. Do you think that when we enter the period of progress, the age verification systems of today will just be reverted? Fuck no. They'll stay. They'll become normal. And the fight against them will need to start from scratch, with an ever bigger amount of opposition.

I'm really jealous of the people who can maintain hope.

Didn't Biden undo a lot of shit that Trump has done during his first term?

QUICK! DONT VOTE AND LET THE REGRESSIVE PARTY KEEP POWER! 🤣👍

Right-to-work is just another bullshit anti-Union policy.

I have concluded that the Established Democrats would rather that Trump or somebody like him is POTUS than to concede to the Left on anything, even on a morally highly charged subject like the mass murdering of tens of thousand of children (in Gaza) which at least for some people would make the Democrat candidate so repugnant that they couldn't bring themselves to vote for her even "to stop Trump"

Had Kamala genuinelly conceded to the Left on some things and not latched on to none other than the Cheney familly (honestly, I don't thing the Israeli subject was by itself enough to cause that loss), she could very well have won, but that faction of the Democrats would rather loose than stop cozing with the hard-right, so they lost to none other than Trump.

If what the Democrat tribalists were parroting back them about how Trump was so horrible and the Democrats needed to win to stop his policies was indeed how the Established Democrats felt, they would NEVER had risked a Trump victory by adopting a Reject The Left strategy at all levels.

All this to say that these people will never undo what Trump did to the broader society (though the parts that make them less electable - i.e. that affect their own personal upsides - I'm sure they'll undo) because they're totally fine with it, as shown by how in the last election they would rather risk a second Trump presidency to keep on going Right politically than to pivot Left in the slightest of ways.

Without a Revolution inside the Democrat Party, the US will keep on going in the same direction as these Democrats will do nothing but talkie-talkie on reversing Trump's policies and then in a few years another Trump character (or, worse, a genuinelly intelligent one) get in power again.

Spanberger is part of the paid opposition party. She will never do anything to take power away from capitol, and Republicans will do everything to give more power to capitol.

Of course there are two parties. They create the illusion of choice necessary for the political ratchet - one party to drive things to the right, the other as controlled opposition to obstruct movement back to the left.

Spoiler: Democratic politicians wanted 80% of what Trump did. The 20% they didn't want was all him going after his democratic enemies ... but they take the bad with the "good".

Conservative dems are just republicans.

The next step wouldn't be abandoning democrats, it would be getting democrats in power, getting rid of the republicans (because they've provably turned into an enemy of the United States of America), and then creating an actual left party, and having the democrats become the new right wing.

For at least 5 minutes, I'd bet, we'd have a sane right wing.

I fear Dems will see just how easily we've bent over for the current administration, and realize they can get away with it too. I've said it ad nauseam -- when did we decide to start trusting the government? Any government? I'm right in the middle of my expected lifespan, and I never once trusted my government. Why would I? They've done nothing positive for my generation, and every slight success is quickly dismissed or disqualified by the next dipshit with deep enough pockets to rule the land. This isn't democracy, and it never has been. The "people's vote" has never mattered. It's just another smoke surrounded mirror providing the illusion that democracy exists. Hell, the only reason the word democracy probably exists in our history is to make us believe that such an impossibility is reality. Mark my words and those of others, the only difference between the two parties? One is full of fascist, pedophile, sex offenders and the other is full of fascist, pedophile, sex offenders. The female leaders in both parties are just enablers, otherwise they wouldn't put up with the shit and take to the streets. Same for our more diverse leaders. If they rock the boat too hard, they're out a paycheck and some sweet, sweet insider trading. The whole system is dead, and I fear revolution is the only answer to the madness. But we've become too complacent and docile to fight. We're too busy trying to make ends meet to have the necessary reserve energy to fight for rights which probably never truly mattered in the first place. Just stuff written down that **we're **advised to follow or face penalties. None of the people in power ever follow their own rules or the rules commanded by the people. When I say we are doomed to the point of extinction, I mean we are DOOMED. There's just no way for even the lamest human to find any reliability, accountability, or faith in governments that have outwardly shouted that they're not to be trusted and could give a shit about your life.