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Of course! That's the good cop/bad cop pattern that is US politics.

Party A makes a horrible mess and makes intractable changes that are never reversed.

Party B "saves" the people with landslide election, making small temporary concessions to much fanfare whilst leaving all of the actual nightmare machine built in the prior decade untouched (example Patriot Act, Citizens United, more).

"We were so close!"

"Just a few more votes!"

"We can't make these changes overnight"

Stagnate for a generation or so and rake in immense treasures.

"Oh no we've printed too much money", "help all of our manufacturing went to Mexico", et al spiraling problems and out of control mess.

Party A, the same party that 10-20 years ago wrecked absolutely everything, is here to save the day! Finally! This is the last election! They have had to collect only "significant treasures" for some time, we have to switch it up again so they can now make "immense treasures".

Parties then actually change and/or eliminate their "platform" and even switch places completely here and there. The "donors" and political elite remain the exact. same. people. The Fed keeps on working, and somehow even with the Fed keeping a firm hand, the banks make record profits. Oh no! they will collapse from their own profiteering fraud, we need to give them tax money so they can make money with the money they already made money with for 20 years. They will pay us back, of course... but only AFTER they "print" all of that money that costs them nothing to print to pay us back with. Wait, they don't even bother to "print" it, it's just a number in a server. It's even easier, the rug pull is so simple. Somehow, every year the banks/corps/robber barons own more land and gold and the actual people own less.

Rinse and repeat from 1970s until today! We will be saved from the villains who saved us from the villains who saved us from those other villains! We're a democracy, see?

(I hope I'm wrong and instead they have a constitutional convention and SAVE THE WORLD and universal healthcare and "chicken in every pot" New Deal politics and firm corporate control and monopoly busting and separation of church-state cemented and banks removed from banking regulation and so much more. but I don't think so.)

Pretty sure everyone and their mother said similar when Doug Jones won too.

We all know how that turned out in the next election.

I'm starting to wonder why this even matters? The Epstein Files and all the political action we've seen shows that Democrats are there to provide controlled opposition. No Democrat politician will ever manage to make any real change for the better in the country, right?

I'm trying not to be a Doomer, please someone help me not be a Doomer. It doesn't feel good to be hopeless.

Whether he incites riots or not…he’s going to try and cancel the elections.

and UTAH'S GOV signed a bill that he can EXPAND the supreme court in UTAH as of recently, for the fear of DEM wins in the state.

Like that would change anything, your "Dems" are just as corrupt as your "Republicans"

I mean, fingers crossed.

Republicans have a long and storied history of fighting unfairly. And this will definitely put the fear of God in them

While Fort Worth is a red city, it’s still a major city in the Dallas area. Fort Worth is not full of rednecks who work the fields

Hopefully nobody is dumb enough to vote a republican in for 100 years. What is his stance on Israel?

Republican Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick reacted somberly to the news of Rehmet’s victory, warning in a social media post that the result was “a wake-up call for Republicans across Texas.”

“Our voters cannot take anything for granted,” Patrick emphasized.

Totally forgotten who works for whom in this arrangement. That’s how deep the fascism is baked in.