Because food crisis are so reliable at taking down authoritarian regimes. The democrats are at the same place people are, working within the system and the designated ways to protest and expecting change to suddenly come out miraculously out of their virtuosity. The US hope is basically that the authoritarian in power is too incompetent to keep it when they've been preparing for this for several years now. It's not a bad plan if it were only Trump, unfortunately it's far bigger than him now.

If we are going to be vaguely idealistic, the obvious solution is for all things bad to stop so that all things that are good grow into things that are more good.

[–] M1ch431@slrpnk.net 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

I wish the Democrats, and the people who trust them to save them, the best.

I've just been told too many lies and seen the American people been gaslit too much.

There have been too many atrocities that Democrats have directly enabled, there are crises in every area of the human experience, and what they are overall proposing to address those issues and the consequences of their past inaction and misbehavior is inadequate.

When Democrats start taking substantive legal action en-masse against this administration, like they do against third parties, I'll be more open to the idea that they aren't complicit or apathetic.

Vague protests about oligarchy aren't sufficient to deal with oligarchy. We can't even get them to back universal healthcare, how can they fight oligarchy?