most people in the US treat politics like sports and are just convinced it's beneficial because it's their guy. i truely hate to be reductive but that's at least half of it.
electoral reform, really is the way, not just a better voting system but making it easier to vote, making it more difficult to gerrymander, getting rid of fptp.
it's a lot of big asks but if we want to save the country that's how.
also fixing the fucking madness that is the supreme Court
This is what "forcing" the democrats to make a change looks like, all it will ever do is shift the overton window to the right and make things even worse.
What really lost the democrats the election was years of gerrymandering, voter suppression and making it just difficult as fuck to vote in Dem areas.
the way I've always put it is you have an idea of who you want to be and you have to work to be that person every day and it's okay to fall it's okay to fail but it's important that you keep trying.
put that limit at 100 million please