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See this is what kills me about the Democrats. Sure they're not all powerful. But they don't use any of the power they have. Cuz like you mentioned they could make this a living hell for anyone in the administration. They could be dragging these fools up to testify all day everyday. Wasting tons of time, making things extremely stressful for these people, massive headaches, lawyer fees, and all else that goes with it. They just don't. Occasionally they'll do it for a good TV clip and that's it.
Yes, they are that way on purpose, because most Democrats are also beholden to and exist to do the bidding of mostly the same set of corporate overlords as the Republicans.
This has been totally systemically inevitable since Citizens United a decade+ ago, and it had basicalpy been headed that way since at least the 80s.
The political system is entirely captured by corporate elites and big money that throws that money around via PACs and SuperPACs.
Lobbying is corruption, and we have just for a very long time pretended it isn't.
This is why the entire Democratic apparatus moved heaven and earth to ratfuck Bernie, to try to fuck over AoC, to try to fuck over Mamdani... but they turn into sheepish confused pathetic blobs of imeffective cringe when it comes to doing anything against literal violent fascists.
Capital always supports fascists.
AoC, Mamdani, Bernie, these are weird anomalies, but otherwise, the system is working as intended, and it is intended to create an endless stream of ineffective, compromising neoliberal/shitlibs, who ultimately just slap a friendlier/rainbow face on top of very, very similar policies in regard to all things other than the 'culture war'.
I don’t doubt that part of it is that most of these zombies are on death’s doorstep already and it’d take more energy than they can muster anymore.