Democratic ones. One used hate to rise to power, the other ignored it to collect Wall Street checks. The America I grew up in, not always perfect but a leader on the world stage is gone. This is what it looks like when an empire ends.
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And meanwhile, even some Dem congress members are more concerned about 'decorum' and the "august Senate" and having their staff post useless platitudes to social media than fighting to save this country from itself. Spineless and weak. This is exactly what we deserve, sadly.
No, I do not deserve this! I didn't vote for this, none of it I voted for. Now the MAGAs deserve it, but I personally do not deserve this. I am collateral damage.
Did you vote for Clinton? Or some other establishment Dem since Reagan? Deserved might not be right but earned may be truer. When Reagan beat the crap out of Democrats in 1980 the New Democrats - lead by Biden, Pelosi, Clinton, etc. decided the best strategy was not to stick to the Rooseveltian
policies that kept the Dems in control of the Senate and House from 1932-1980 with the exception of two years, they decided to pivot to Wall Street and the educated better off while taking for granted the minority and working class vote. They lost the working class and if not for the GOPs overt
racism they would have lost the minority vote as well. I fall in the same category, I was lulled in by Clinton and Obama, I didn't see the dangers and errors of neoliberalism until it was too late, too focused on the terrible things Republicans were doing I missed my own team's failings. No, we
didn't vote for a racists demagogue and his party, we voted instead for the one that happily ignored them in lieu of cashing lobbyists checks. The nation is collectively guilty. We elected leaders who were too afraid to upset the other party that was going to be upset regardless and when they should
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