@OwlInASack I guess that I am coming to the conclusion that I really do not understand what the Republicans and the Democrats are. Those in the White House seem to be consistently not at all representative of the electorate. Mostly men in dark suits who look after the interests of bankers and corporations. Your senate is filled with millionaires or billionaires who certainly do not represent the great mass of electorate. Your lower house really confuses me as I see Nancy Pelosi as the Dem leader and watching her speak I find her inept. Is that the best that the Dems can do? I understand that many of those in congress like senators are beholden to banks &/or corporations for getting them elected. Hardly representing the people again. Is this all just proof of the takeover of all power by corporate interests?
Frankly the addition of those 4 described as The Squad is an injection that you need in a huge way.

@rogerbenham you lost me in the last sentence. I see the squad to be the exact way I see Sanders. Tools to keep people trapped in a false hope of saving a failed party within a failed system. Their history is the same as Sanders. Never really exposing the degree of crimes an unethical practices of the establishment parties. Actually participating in a number of ways when it comes to many of the establishments false narratives. Especially when it comes to regime change and cold war issues! Presently avoiding election tampering at a time it matters most. Both in 2016 and 2020.

Caving in on issues of importance over speaking out with substance to provide necessary examples of reason to create mistrust. The border issue and unethical use of appropriating funds from the military budget to build a wall to skirt the lack of support from representatives for an example. These are real matters to consider impeachment over the manufactured Ukrainegate.

When they are attacked by other representatives and the media they basically allow it to happen never using that moment to expose real unethical practices within the same issue they are being attacked over. If they refuse to use the history provided by the practices of their attackers then they aren't really representing us are they?

In all her time speaking out about the border issue and ICE, have you ever once heard AOC spell out the flight of all those people coming here and what drives them to come here? How the policies of Clinton and Biden created the newest wave of them presently being held in detention camps and horrid conditions in Mexico. Of course not, it would go against her own party and her past support of Clinton right after she was elected. And tying them to a collaborate failed system that Trump now uses to inflame the far right would not be tolerated. Just as Biden has managed to escape responsibility for and the rest of the democrats under a democratic administration run by Obama.

@William_Mary Well since I do not watch television or listen to the news or live in the USA (TG) I can only bow to your superior knowledge but I would assume that under your existing system the only way that their voices could be heard speaking the thoughts I saw on that recent post was by being elected as Democrats.

@rogerbenham people have been getting elected under the same pretense within the democratic party for at least 4 decades to combat what we see as an attack starting from the Reagan era. They come and go like the seasons because we have an electorate that often switches party when they become dissatisfied with the results from one representative. Which with each time one of these squad members make the headlines in main stream media, that media plants that very seed into the minds of viewers to question what they are actually getting done within their districts. So they tend to either get quickly voted out or reach media silence orchestrated by the establishment. However, AOC having been moved to the popular front gets paraded back out to the front ironically, seemingly, when they need a distraction. I occasionally made my case exposing her as a possible plant in the past to allow Joe to move into the lobbying field. While often being represented in the media as a new comer I have listed a number of aspects to her life that would suggest she's spent her life for this moment.

When that electorate, seemingly, either remains uneducated due to perception management, or feels the need for change, it's due to that representatives motivation to remain timid towards rocking the establishment line. At what point to you draw a conclusion it's done within collaboration or incompetence? You're really left with no other considerations?

@rogerbenham I agree with everything you said, until your last line. Only because I'm not so sure "The Squad" has the best interests of the people at heart. Even if they did, they have no power in the party.

@Piece2YourPuzzle Sad. But that 4 person interview I found most helpful. They represent some people who are not the elite at least. They have no power because so far they are so few.

@rogerbenham I believe the way the system is it won't allow them to gain power, if they are genuine.

@Piece2YourPuzzle Yes I believe that you are correct.