People keep looking for some glimmer, some savior, some return to decency. But the mechanisms that used to create progress labor movements, political will, civic infrastructure have been gutted and co-opted.    Some people have been brainwashed on the idea that. The unions, which were the only group that would fight for them, are somehow not worth the dues. And to make it even more terrifying? The corporations literally come in and physically attack the people who are trying to explain the benefits of unionizing. And in some red states, some Bible entrenched ridiculousness. The poor dumb  bible thumping  cousin ******* pieces of **** is that work for  literally 7 $ an hour pennies ; actually fall for it and support the attacks. Without realizing that without the unions, the workers would literally have nothing. No sick leave, no maternity leave, nothing ! Just fired and replaced with the next G.E.D. or less monkey in bass pro shops hat.

Did it ever make sense or have hope?  Who was a worthy example?

Carter literally built houses with his own hands after leaving office. Compare that to today’s football roofie ****** disguised as politicians. They can’t even build a coalition without corporate puppeteers pulling the strings and writing it all for them.  Literal plastic brainless ****** with guns that ****** puppies. Fox News. Saturday morning correspondence with more alcohol than blood.

Those who did  try, like Obama, faced a political meat grinder filibustered, obstructed, neutered at every turn. The Koch brothers, and those like them, created a political machine so deep-rooted and effective that legislation never even gets to the floor unless it’s pre-approved by corporate interest.

And now? The tools of government Congress, the Senate, the courts are treated like uncensored  props in a full blown  Clarence Thomas Winnebago  farce, while executive orders become magic wands to force through personality-driven  megalomaniac riot inciting, dogmatic fear and disgust as  absolute idiotic  rule.