So when do we finally get some breathing room to restructure our political system before Election Day? When do we finally get to turn our political system into something functional and not a fucking joke?
Because the way it’s looking, we’re gonna have to vote for the imperfect centrists every time and told to suck it up and deal with the lack of real change by people proclaiming “Do you really want the fascist to win?!?” until the fascists do win because the imperfect centrists managed to get jack shit accomplished.
This system isn’t working. It doesn’t seem that there’s any route for us to get to a better place, and it feels like that’s by design rather than by accident. When we’ve tried asking for game-changing progressive action, we not only lose, but we get shit on as impractical dreamers, a resounding “Meh” uttered in response to our concerns and criticisms. Which just helps confirm that this is a feature of the system, and not a bug.
I’m really fucking tired of being told to Vote Blue No Matter Who. The long arc of history bends toward justice, but you can die starving on the floor of a prison waiting until it comes. I feel like the right could stage a coup and start marching Dems off to internment camps and most of them would still be relying on zingers like “Aren’t Republicans supposed to be the party of small government?!?” while thinking about what John Oliver will have to say about this on Sunday and what gifs from The Simpsons or Futurama they’d use to respond to their imprisonment if they still had their phone. The GOP is all geared up to win a game of Calvinball that will decide the future of this country and all the Democrats have managed to do is turn to the referee and politely mumble “ahem sir that’s not how you correctly score a wicket.”
