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The fundamental problem with American politics is that you've got a party of callous, narcissistic far-right lunatics slavishly loyal to Capital that only knows how to lie, cheat, and be corrupt as all get out while the news media endlessly runs cover and gaslights the country into believing they're actually quite moderate and reasonable.
And then you've got the Republican Party coming in to replace them and make everything worse.
This isn't a problem of "Critical Thinking". This is a problem of the Bastions of Liberalism electing Gavin Newsom as Governor of the West Coast and Eric Adams as Mayor of the East Coast. And these are your top picks for President in 2028. Meanwhile, the furthest left-wing voices in the party are so utterly buck-broken that they can't admit they've once again kicked several billion dollars towards genocide. The moderate liberals in the purple states are vetoing wildly popular legislation that kinda-sorta prohibits price gouging in rental unit markets. The party leadership fully embraces cryptocurrency as a rich vein of fundraising cash. The conservative wing of the Ds is full on TERF
Think critically about the current state of the American political establishment and what you realize is that you're boxed in. Everyone of note is bought and paid for. The population is fully gaslit by a consent manufacturing machine running on overdrive. The best case scenario for someone of liberal disposition is that the government simply ignores you. The worst case is that gestapo punch through your door and drag you to an overseas prison to be tortured to death.
Republicans are frothing at the mouth for more, more, more. Democrats only know how to shrug, pocket more donor money, and tell you that Biden would have fixed everything if you'd just voted for him.
That's why a total Revolution is the only actual solution. If the Democrats wanted to try reform they would be acting completely different. They foreclose that possibility
Total Revolution is difficult and requires a very active, committed group of supporters acting both within and outside the administration. Absolutely something you want to aim for, but often the product of generations of struggle.
You could, for instance, argue that the current Trump/DOGE government is a kind of (counter-)revolution that is finally overturning the Progressive Era of liberal democratic government. But this was a project that played out over decades, with each new wave of outsiders agitating and being rebuffed and regrouping to try again, while moderates on the inside cleared more and more space for radicals to infiltrate and overturn the New Deal and the Warren Court.
The deeply unsettling and grisly truth is that Democrats are as much a part of the Trump/DOGE government as the Republicans. Liberals demand a return to Clinton-Era governance and Chuck Schumer responds by posting taco memes while complaining about Trump being weak on Iran. They have been as much a force in moving our country towards fascism as the Republicans, through constantly splitting and vilifying the progressive opposition while holding out deceitful promises of reforms they never planned to implement.
Like, we're in the midst of a Revolution. It's just not the kind folks on this site want.