Our system is done and I think we need to stop pretending that there is something left to salvage.
No matter what we vote in November it's clear we no longer operate under rules and laws and are no longer a democracy in any sense of the word.
Time for us to accept America's 1st democracy failed.
colonial era != continental congress era != founding era != reconstruction era != preera != interwar era != cold war era != post-cold war era != current era; tho folks can draw the lines in different places
I can't shake the feeling that the only thing that held our crap system "together" if it can even be called that was the unifying element of white supremacy, and a general majority agreement to do racist policies.
I don't know if American democracy ever amounted to anything more than that.
I think it did, tho these are admittedly very dark times, and it's hard to see right now. But far more importantly: I think it can be a better nation, if we will it; one built on equality, dignity, and justice for everyone. And where elites and institutions failed us, we can and must build anew
Sheldon Whitehouse had a good thread on nitter today about dark $$$$ (and I would add oligarchy) being behind a lot of today's US problems, and making that a campaign focus. It will take many of us joining together to take US back from that secretive 1%.
