I'm sorry but the Democratic Party is not doing its job.

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14. I think the Democrats are in denial about how bad the GOP has gotten

The GOP no longer believes in democracy. All they care about is maintaining themselves in power. When they have a majority, they abuse it to ram through unpopular legislation. When they are in the minority, they use sabotage and obstructionism to forestall what is good for the majority of citizens. They would rather twist the laws and twist the courts than maintain a functioning system. They would rather see our infrastructure decay than have the government get credit for fixing it.

If there's a word for this, I don't know what it is. It isn't fascism, because fascists at least made the trains run on time. It isn't anarchism because anarchists are generally on the side of the poor and believe strongly in mutual aid. Anarcho-fascism maybe????

But whatever you call it, the Democrats are in flat-out, codependency-style denial that it is happening. They act as though we still have a functioning democracy with two parties that both play by the rules and are prepared to act together on important issues. And this makes them suckers.

It isn't just that the Democrats aren't able to fight back. It's that they're willfully blind to the fact that they're in a war.