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God damn. You just made me realize one thing. Yes the republicans are THE problem, but democrats are like an accomplice. We're having these problems because democrats are just enabling the republicans. Let's say AOC gets elected in 2028.
If she comes in, guns blazing, and puts trump over her knee and spanks his ass red, then the rest of his chronies will wonder if they're next.
But if she comes in, gets on her knees and blows him, then they know nothing needs to change, and they should go further. Why not? Even when they lose power they face no consequences.
We need a candidate who shows up to the 2028 debates in July, gets asked what they would do about the corruption in government, and IMMEDIATELY pulls a pistol out, and shoots trump.
THATS who I would vote for.
What suggests AOC would ever blow Trump over spanking him?...
(Why did I have to type this?)
You just realised that now? This is what others have been saying for a long time! As an outsider looking at American politics, the Democratic party is the opposite cheek of the same ass, in which the other cheek is the Republican party. It's unbelievable that many Americans refuse to see this. I get that the US has first past the post and has to vote for "lesser evil", but other countries also have the same system, and yet these countries have third parties gaining seats and influencing policies massively. Heck, even one hundred years ago, third parties are getting elected in Congress and Senate.
Why are third parties aren't getting elected anymore? The American public has been pacified by corporate mass media to think within a narrow and curated worldview. To quote Noam Chomsky: the smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum. Americans have been conditioned to think it's only liberals versus conservatives, and Democrats versus Republicans. Meanwhile, both parties are in the pocket of the oligarchs.
It's good that more and more Americans have been waking up, in an unironic sense, to think outside the corporate narrative, because the No Kings protests is a start for the mass mobilisation and activism. But this is useless if the movement does not translate to substantive electoral changes. Even many Americans still assume that the next presidential election will be establishment Democrats versus the far right Republican. And those who make assumption repeat the Democratic party thought terminating cliché of "vote for lesser evil" and "perfect is the enemy of good". That said, it is good that many Americans gradually turning away from the corporate establishment worldview, and starting to become more politically active by now discussing to primary progressives into power to circumvent the first past the post system.