The US had to come to this point. We couldn’t go on as we were, even under Democratic presidents. For 40 years, a narrow economic elite has been siphoning off ever more wealth and power.
Over the last 40 years, starting with Ronald Reagan, the US went off the rails: deregulation, privatization, free trade, wild gambling by Wall Street, union-busting, monopolization, record levels of inequality, stagnant wages for most, staggering wealth for a few, big money taking over our politics.
America’s so-called “leadership class” is a sham. Most of them do not care a whit for the rest of the US. They are out for themselves.
The “fucking nightmare” is not over by any stretch. It’s likely to get worse in 2026 as Trump and his sycophants, and many of America’s “leaders”, realize 2026 may be their last unrestrained year to inflict damage and siphon off the spoils.
Much of the voting population still thinks the Democrats are the “good guys” who will save us. Even here on Lemmy, speaking ill of the Democrats often gets me downvoted. The portion of Americans who are actually anti-capitalist is pretty small. Even most the supposed “far leftists” just want to tax billionaires. There anti-capitalist movement in the USA is far too small to be influential, the only real organization being the DSA, but even then the DSA is composed of a mixture of socialists and liberals and so it is not a purely socialist organization.
The problem I have with some people (a lot of people on Reddit, not sure about Lemmy I just started) is that people will take the Democrats fecklessness and say both sides are the same, so voting for either party makes no difference. It’s literally a life and death difference if you are a from a certain caste.
You can say that both parties are a fundamental problem with this country in regards to corporate ownership, etc., while still acknowledging that the Republican party is currently trying to destroy democratic institutions and implement a fascist christian ethnostate.
I don’t acknowledge that the US has “democratic institutions.”
I know. It’s disheartening.
I feel like any strong opinions involving the democrats regardless of your side will get downvoted at this point. Democratic party is getting torn apart in general just like the Republican party right now