US Politics

Most memorable thing for me is that he [Biden] took 2 year to nominate someone as chair for the deadlocked FCC. Not get someone elected (which would be hard because of the split house), but to even nominate someone.

At best it was inept, but it makes it easy to see why people think the Dems aren't interested in anything more than sustaining the status quo

Not sure they're all that interested in sustaining the status quo, even - more like inhabiting some fluffy dreamworld where Mitch McConnell hadn't used any and all wispy shreds of patriotism and/or sanity and/or decency in the Republicans to wipe his arse years ago. Zero answer to all the gutter tactics this whole century. Just stood there stupidly blinking as the madness took hold and the whole judiciary, not just the SC, was stacked with ravening partisan hacks on one end, and at the other, all that locally-determined machinery of democracy was comprehensively attacked and even further gerrymandered.

The Dems have been just standing there dazed and confused while all this Machiavellian manoeuvering happened around them, with their hands jammed in their pants and their eyes fixed on nothing but the now-outdated timetable for the gravy train.

Bernie in the lead-up to 2016 was their final wake-up call, and rather than listen to the message, well, you know the rest. It's the same story all over - the ossified political class has become so damn comfortable in their 'soft' corruption, they've forgotten to keep maintaining the superficial plausibility of the alleged social contract so it's become obvious that they're not representatives but aristocracy. An aristocracy so decadent they can't understand how out of touch they are, even when a grassroots insurgency defied the odds to have enough momentum to make it all the way up the hill to shake them by the lapels.