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Same. That was Bernie Sanders, and the DNC stole his nomination.
Phone banked for him on two campaigns, saw the sabotage first hand. I know it's a no win scenario for the masses.
In order for anything to improve, rather than voting for the speed of decline as we have for 50 years, this system must be destroyed by force, as both parties are completely captured and would rather lose elections then lose their respective corpo bribe gravy trains. Until that happens, or until climate change does it for us when it's too late for civilization entirely in a couple decades, nothing can improve.
I don't consider ribbons and affirmations to be tangible improvements either. I consider universal access to quality education, commons like parks and public transit, medical care, food, and shelter to be improvements. Those are all pipedreams under the Fascists and the Neoliberals. The signature "achievement" 9f Democrats for the last half century they won't stop crowing about was a heritage foundation conceived plan to further enshrine for profit health insurer vulture capitalists into healthcare, and it's worked exactly as intended.
There's no one to vote for here. That's not allowed. Only against in the culture battles meant to keep us at each other's throats. This place is lost.