I'm not going to tell you all not to vote for Biden - Trump seems to have critically failed to take over the military in his clear wish to be President-For-Life, but that's incompetence, not lack of will. I'm just saying to be realistic, and by "realistic" I mean to realize that the American people are garbage and thus produce garbage results. If there is anyone to remember us we may yet be remembered even worse than the Nazis, because even the Nazis didn't succeed at destroying the world. We are not alone in our crimes, but we are certainly the first among them.
Say Max gets his wish - Biden landslides, DNC gets 2/3rds majorities in both houses, Trump has to be violently arrested on live TV after denying the results, and maybe Clarence Thomas succumbs to COVID this December. As happened in 2008, someone will opine on CNN that "the Republican Party as a national organization is done".
Now, that stuff isn't going to happen. Every Presidential election from now until the death of America is going to be a regression-to-the-mean 51/49 psychotic deathmatch with probably some more Republicans winning on the Electoral College. But let us fantasize.
So what? Democratic One-Party Rule existed in 2008 too, but it doesn't change the fundamental nature of the Democratic Party. 2008-2010 was the optimal time for the DNC to prove they had any amount of fucking chutzpah - people were openly calling for the heads of bankers in the streets! And what we got was nothing. A bloodless healthcare law that seemed like it was designed from the ground up to piss everyone off by fining them, with a nice little "you can't be left to die on the streets if you've ever been sick in your life before" clause. Patriot Act? Extended. Guantanamo? Open for business. Iraq and Afghanistan? Rational extermination from the skies in stead of proud boots on the ground bleeding for Christ. And the bankers? The motherfuckers who not a single good human being would ever associate with and destroyed the entire human race's economy? They gave them our fucking money!
Can you even fucking blame people for being taken in by the Tea Party? At least the Tea Party was willing to show some goddamn rage!
The Democratic Party won't be insufficient, it will be nothing. Rapist Joe won't even question the drug war! The most basic fucking thing that the GOP can't pick up that everyone supports doing. I don't know what drives Democrats. Republicans? I understand them very well. But the thing that most strikes me about Democrats is that in the right circumstances they show every bit the impenetrable cultist attitude of the most ardent Trumpists. Like the Trumpists, they will find any excuse to do nothing if it is the will of the DNC bosses. In a way, they are also Trump cultists, but their focus is simply one of monomaniacal obsession rather than adoration.
America is doomed. And I understand now that it was doomed long before Sanders ever got a single vote for Mayor of Burlington, because we are bad people. We are the dying fucking empire! How can a dead tree ever bear fruit? The problem isn't these politicians, the problem is us. We're just getting the demented rapist conservatives that we deserve to run this place.
In 2030, if we somehow live that long, will we be less doomed when the boomers lose their grasp on the heart of this society? I fucking doubt it. Vote for Biden, then. Enjoy our descent how ever you care to. But claim we have hope from the Democratic Party or the silent majority, and you're denying the reality around you.