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.
As much as I would love to believe the good in humanity, at this point I’m skeptical that even if 50% of the population started to resist the government that it would do anything. After all, both viable parties are in the pockets of the billionaires that bought our current government. So unless we have a straight up armed uprising, this will mean nothing.
Pretty much we need to change the entire system or nothing will change. You said it yourself, there are only two viable parties under our current system and they are both corrupt and serve the interests of our oppressors.
This is by design. The system of partisanship and electoralist statism, supported and maintained by the capitalist system of economics has never served our interests; it only ever served the interests of the ruling powers. They didn’t buy the government. They built it.
And unfortunately, any time the people attempt to resist the overruling authority, that authority will engage in violence to keep their power. So a fight is inevitable if we ever want things to get better.
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
Way I see it, people with nothing left to live for could attempt some crazy shit.
Even if Americans resisted, it wouldn’t matter, because “resisting” doesn’t do anything if it’s not well-organized by some organization or party that can channel the resistance into positive change. A lot of countries in the past have had “uprisings” that are largely disorganized, and the result is that the protestors don’t actually have any clear goals or anything to even potentially replace the sitting government, and so the sitting government just uses the protests as an excuse to oust another faction.
Well, it’s either that or be oppressed under a fascist government. So its a lose-lose either way in this scenario. Unless the democrats suddenly turn left I guess