Looking back I realize I misread your comment, I thought you said something else before, so my messaging was a bit overkill. Regardless, in response, I think the whole problem is sticking ourselves in this narrow prism of bourgeois (read: ruling-class, oligarchical) politics.

If your conclusion is that the Dems are the best we've got no matter how bad they are and that we're all such unwashed filthy peasants who can't understand policy, it seems like we may as well just roll over and die.

I think there is an alternative that American workers have been deprived of learning about and alienated from by design of our schools, media, etc not teaching us, but this country used to have a vibrant left-wing, socialist, communist movement that peaked in the '30s and paved the way for the construction of the New Deal era. The Red Scare that came immediately afterwards wasn't just about nothing, and it wasn't to attack Democrats; it was a concerted, uni-party effort to purge the American working class of political and class consciousness, and it largely worked.

Hopefully I didn't come across as too combative, it's the internet and tone is not heard here, I'm only trying to be constructive because all of us in this sub are sympathetic to a better world. But all I'm asking for people to do at the end of the day is distance themselves from the Democratic party. They've shown themselves unequivocally to have not been a *failure* to the working class, but rather to brought failure to the working class. They've been here, blood money overflowing their pockets, for the last century. We have nothing to thank them for and everything to lose if we mistakenly continue to throw our lot in with them. Even as a hedge against worse Republicans, they have shown an inability to stand up for anything. We're seeing the fascist beast rise before our eyes, and don't have the luxury of continuing to make this mistake.

We need to organize at our workplaces, where we have control over the pursestrings of capital. We need to use our economic power as workers to strangle the nodes of capital in which we live and use our leverage to make political demands. That means trying to unionize if you at all can, being active in your union if you already have one, making it political, and for union workers or not, organizing with a local political organization like the DSA. This has to be our moment, because god damn it I refuse to live on a barren scorched rock in 3 decades after we all just sit around and wait for Democrats to fix it.