“The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice - you don’t. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they’ve got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies so they control just about all the news and information you get to hear. ...It’s a big club, and YOU AIN’T IN IT! They don’t give a fuck about you. They don’t care about you, at all! At all! And nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care.” —George Carlin Hey, “progressives”? Instead of burning down and looting small businesses and attacking random people, and/or calling anyone who has a problem with that a bigot, take your outrage to Capital Hill (going on vacation without passing a stimulus) or Wall Street or Silicon Valley or Bezos’ estate. And stop cheering when your own people do the exact same shit (blatant corruption, bombing civilians including American citizens, spying on you, censorship, persecution of whistleblowers, mass incarceration, austerity, further cuts to all social services while they increase defense spending, which they already spend way more on than all other government spending put together, even more) that you rightly criticized Trump for. “Biden and Harris are like my mom and dad!” “A return of decency to the White House!” “YAS KWEEN, GIRL BOSS, MORE 👋 BIPOC👋LATINZXZ👋WOMXZYXN👋 TORTURERS!!!!!” All of Biden’s appointees are monstrous war criminals from the Bush administration, but the corporate “progressive” media with the memory of a goldfish is acting like they’re awesome people. Our one-party government has never been more obviously so. People are so brainwashed. Republicans refused to appoint Obama’s Supreme Court nominee because “too close to the election” (a year away), but then they appoint ACB a month before the election, and Republicans are fine with that. Democrats continue to parrot the unfounded accusation that “Russian bots” got Trump elected, and for the past four years have called for simply ignoring the Electoral College and staging a Coup against Trump, but now “how dare anyone even suggest the notion of impropriety with the election results?” I know it’s not people’s fault, they’re brainwashed by the media, but as a result they’ve become so shockingly unprincipled that they’re completely willing without hesitation to support or oppose almost anything based solely on which of the “two parties” the politician belongs to (in reality, we have only one party in the US. Kamala Harris and Lindsey Graham fist-bumped because off-camera they’re all friends and “partisan gridlock” is political theatre to provide a flimsy excuse for why all of them continue to fuck you over). Possibly, some politicians are mildly less terrible than others, but at the same time maybe that’s not true? Bernie is definitely a sellout, and most likely was always a fraud and a sheepdog (even if his sheepdogging might have unintentionally had the opposite effect). AOC was groomed/manufactured to be appealing to a certain subset of the voting base (young coastal city-dwelling upper-middle-class and-above liberal voters), she’s a career politician from a rich family not a “normal person”, and as soon as she was elected she voted the same way as Pelosi Antoinette and everyone else in Congress. “Oh, we can totally pressure Biden to do shit for us,” you couldn’t even pressure him to lie that he would before an incredibly-close election (and the fact that Trump even stood a chance in hell of winning just shows how pathetically terrible the Democrat ticket is). Once he gets elected it’ll just be more excuse-making (“he needs to not do shit for us or the Democrats will lose in the midterms”.) Americans put up with too much shit. They’re grown used to it. If European politicians fucked over their citizens even close to as badly as US politicians constantly do, their citizens would overthrow them. Not that there isn’t shit wrong with Europe (arresting people for offensive tweets, etc), but overall it sucks a lot less than life in the US.