@Dutchess_III You’re right that I have changed. I used to think Obama was a good guy, that he actually wanted to do the right things and was being obstructed by Republicans and his naivete at trying to play nice with a party that was hell-bent on denying him any wins.
But after the leaked emails revealed just how corrupt the DNC insiders were, I started to realize that Obama never had any intention of accomplishing the things he pretended to. I realize that we essentially have one party in this country and it’s basically like pro wrestling where politicians appear to really slug things out in the public eye, but both sides punch their timecards with the same employers and pat each-other on the backs after the cameras are off. The media plays along with the spectacle. And many of you (on the left and the right) actually still believe we have 2 sides fighting it out.
The only mission they (DNC, RNC and the corporate media) have is to prevent populist economic policies—the ones that have always come about when the middle class has been crushed as our post-Reagan economy has been doing for decades. They do this through promoting right wing populism (build the wall), and cheating/sabotaging/slandering anyone promoting populist policies, ignoring unions, labor issues and progressive candidates, distract/divide with social “wedge” issues and identity politics and framing all conversations between extremist right and moderate right.
So yes, Trump did change me. I realized that Trump is the symptom, but that the DNC and party insiders are the cause that produced Trump in the first place. That we’re going to keep getting Trumps and more people like him (likely even worse) if we don’t address the DNC. I thought it was possible to do a hostile takeover, that such obvious failures would be met with a purging of the failed people and polices that got us Trump in 2016. That didn’t happen. The party doubled down and once again rigged the primary to defeat populism and progressive policy to put Biden on the ticket—a man who WOULD HAVE LOST if not for COVID. The DNC would rather have 8 years of Trump than a progressive in charge, and that should piss you off (and anyone else who hates Trump) as much as it pisses me off.