"Demoralized" is a good way of describing the American public.
They have little experience with a functional national government and have ceased to expect it.
Their leaders rarely show any willingness to deal with important issues, preferring to tilt at windmills over TikTok or whatever. Stuff just randomly happens because the SCOTUS said so or because lobbyists bribed Congress. Oh, and Trump got away with crimes again because he's rich and they're not.
Americans feel increasingly powerless because the rich and powerful can do whatever they want.
Republicans just break shit and make it legal retroactively.
The Democratic response is a Rube Goldberg machine that requires 50 years of winning every election, replacing every member of the judiciary as they retire, Congressional supermajorities, and a solar eclipse for good luck.
Yeah, you can vote, but at the national level, you're often voting for the same people who have been in office for decades and have shown neither the willingness nor the competence to take on any of these problems.
But Nancy Pelosi just made a cool $5 million from her Nvidia stock options.
At the state level, Democrats do sometimes amaze even with thin majorities because they apparently didn't get the memo they're supposed to punt on "culture war" issues and pretend everything is fine.
Meanwhile, how many times do people have to call Congress begging Democrats not to do something evil like KOSA?
Why do AIPAC and anti-LGBT+ groups have more say than we do?
Oh, right, those groups have a shit load of money and all we have are our votes, and we have to vote blue no matter who.
@gwynnion
we're all fed from birth the story of how we deserve to live under the boot
and even popular notions of "democracy" and "freedom" are all ideologically rooted in the boot-stomping-on-a-human-face-forever ideology (like literally slave-owner shit)