We Can Stop Pretending That Democrats (or Republicans) Are Trying to "Help."

Between Kamala Harris' staff acting completely vacant and Cenk Uygur doing a 180 on MAGA, from fear being used yet again as a prime motivator for the Black vote to some people taking another look at what Bernie Sanders was trying to tell people back in 2016, it's become all to clear that "Democrats vs Republicans" is, to paraphrase Chris Hedges, really "Corporatists vs Oligarchs;" two factions of capitalists battling it out over who gets to absorb and abuse the wealth of the working class and poor. 

Justice Democrats was a failure; the "Squad" - a loose collection of quasi-progressive Democrats spurned on by Kyle Kulinski and Cenk Uygur - was quickly co-opted. Movement for a People's Party fell under the weight of allegations against it's leader who - allegations aside - did nothing to built a state/local powerbase and eventually left to help Robert Kennedy Jr.'s campaign (and continues to support the latter's political career). Netroots havens like Daily Kos and Crooks and Liars -supposedly left-leaning websites that encouraged online community interaction in hopes of creating a more progressive- and their online counterparts like The Young Turks or Secular Talk, went from giving the Democratic Party tons of constructive criticism to being the party's gatekeepers and attack dogs. 

All these groups, at various stages and levels of intensity, told voters about how evil Donald Trump was and how terrible his presidency will be. Yet after the election, how many of them called Biden a traitor for meeting with the guy?

There is still, policy-wise, a "left" and a "right" in America politics. But that's not the battle being waged in most electoral contests. Like I said earlier, it's two factions of capitalists that everyone else has to choose from, and whoever wins gets to put the screws on the poor and working class. For example: America's voters seem to agree on healthcare, immigration, and the economy more than the two major parties, but you wouldn't know that by listening to party leaders (Even Wall Street is skeptical about Trump's deportation push because they understand that immigrants are the engine of America's food supply chain). 

Foreign policy issues seem to have the most divide, but that's not surprising considering that foreign policy is the area that American media is the most manipulative and most biased about.

The country needs a post-duopoly, independent movement free of ineffectual political pragmatism that can attract not Democrats or Republicans, but people who have sided with Democrats and/or Republicans in the past because they saw no other option (party loyalists are lost; you'd have better luck getting a sports fan to change support for their favorite team). This movement needs to be bigger than national electoral politics; it needs to permeate the local and state level, encourage strikes and protests, and use the working class and poor as the catalyst for change. Democrat and Republican zealots need not apply.