Then replace him with a better Democrat or even better, replace some Republicans with Democrats.

@Flyingsaucesir I've heard that one many times before, and the problem is not electing more Democrats or better Democrats, because as long as almost all of the Dems elected in congress are corporate Dems, and accepting corporate campaign cash, there will be ten or more Machins or Sinemas behind every one or two of them who come to the front to play the spoiler of any progressive legislation. Even The Squad is fake or a fraud when it comes down to actually voting on the bills that would offend Dem corporate voters. We need a third party in control of DC, plain and simple...

@TomMcGiverin The problem here is that neither of our hypotheses is likely to be tested any time soon.

@TomMcGiverin I once thought the Green Party was the answer, but it remains relatively insignificant.

@Flyingsaucesir Agreed. We will have violent civil war soon and after that, likely not before either of us is dead, will we have any non-violent political reform thru electoral politics. I think it's too late for our country to get out of this thru electoral politics. Everything, including our society, is too broken, and the ruling class has no interest in fixing it. They just want to let it happen, wait it out, and then carry on after the dust settles and the bodies of collateral damage like us are buried. I think the next couple elections are going to be it, at least until the normal is restored much later, if ever.

@Flyingsaucesir Me too, but they never really got their shit together, the corporate media ignored or discredited them, and convinced everyone on the left to not vote for them, not to waste their vote, etc. And the Dem Party did a great job blaming them, not the SC, for Bush's victory in 2000, a lie that continues to this day, where progressives, not just Greens, get blamed for every loss the Dems have in federal elections, rather than accepting the fact that the Dems have no real message except, "Vote for us, we're not the Repubs", rather than try to win over working class voters with progressive policies...

@TomMcGiverin This country has been through rough patches before and survived. Maybe we can do it again, this time without mass casualties.

Trying to see the glass as half full.

@Flyingsaucesir I really doubt it. We are way more broken and divided than during the Great Depression, and back then we didn't have all the automatic weapons flooding our population. Back then people lacked hope, but they didn't have all this hatred and distrust for anyone outside their tribe. And we also didn't have a government like now, that is owned by a corrupt oligarchy that no longer needs the vast majority of us, as workers or consumers. Back then, the rich and corporations needed the masses for them to survive, operate their businesses, and consume their products and services. Nowadays, the world is their market, rather than just the US, and with outsourcing and automation, they don't need us like back then. So they can sit back, let the fur fly, and pick up the pieces for their global markets after things play out. They don't need us to pick their cotton anymore, so to speak, so we really don't matter, not most of us. Thinning us out saves them money on social programs for the poor, education, health care, etc.

Yup. Any of us.