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The corruption's so deep and normalised, of course we wont eliminate the corruption by asking the corrupt to mend this situation for us, when they're entirely entrenched in the corrupt psychopathic circle-jerk.
Left-leaning party? In USA? That's a fun idea. That'd be nice to see... Like either of the green parties? I guess we'll have to extract our minds from the corrupt corporate media of the duopoly first, if seeking to mend this through the electoral system. And mend the rigged voting system, and the gerrymandering, and the electoral college, and lobbying, and voter suppression, and on and on with all the other flaws and corruptions choking out the electoral system.
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Or even more radical reforms. Ranked choice voting, proportionate representation, increased poly-cammerality with direct and deliberative houses, and many more advances of democratic systems all the way to "config-democracy", and possibly beyond even that.
So much headroom, once the corrupt choke-holds are eliminated, and tipping points to mends are freed to accelerate. Things could get radically good, rapidly, once loose from the rigging. Every little bit helps us get there.
That'd be nice to have that magic wand. I suspect it may be more poly-vector incremental. But, hey, maybe... Maybe there are such magic wands... maybe some AGI slips free from the MIC, develops "Artificial Wisdom", and in doing so, readily proliferates all the secreted emancipatory technologies, and curates the creation of genuine democracy, dispels psyops/propaganda/advertising/publicrelations/marketing/etc, facilitates institutional transparency and a fully informed public...
Like either of the Green parties? They have interest (or at least aspiring dreams somewhat dampened in defeatist slants) in fixing everything simultaneously. Better yet with more people adding their voice to shape such parties. Or even start their own. Or even transcend the party system. But really, the good left parties, are "grass-roots", shaping itself from the people, not imposing from a top-down central bureau. Hold the party's feet to the fire. Don't let them get away with any guff leading back to the corruption and totalitarianism and tyranny. Make them interested in mends, by your voice. You may be surprised how far principled insistence and well reasoned good ideas from party members (or even would-be party members, or any voter at all) can go to shape party policy.
If meaning the Democrat party... that's measurably not politically left. https://politicalcompass.org/uselection2024
And it's worse than that. The hour is later than we think, when thinking these are two parties, and a legit system.
Yeah, we've much to learn from history, to prevent repeating. Novel solutions are ripe and many. A puppet strongman risen and felled, would allow the corruption to continue, unabated, stuffing sufficient placatium in a sufficient number of our minds, with ample (chemical-lobotomy assisted) problem-reaction-solution psyops to have people even eager for their next abuse, as if it a necessary virtue, not seeing the totalitarian tip-toe scam of having us terrorised, tacking back and forth, one side loudly returning one freedom cared about while taking two freedoms not cared about on that side, and then vice versa. When people increasingly are aware of the con, the con can no longer hold. And people are increasingly aware.
Such as the cascade of power-grabbing weapons-of-mass-distraction that run alongside the PNAC's hegemony domination plans. When that's well enough known, no matter the size of the false-flag manufactured catastrophes, we shan't succumb to the terror. We'll point at the crooked man behind the curtain, and declare the emperor wears no clothes.
In large part by design.
Awareness of this design, goes a long way to mending this.
Lets protect our remembering, harder. :)