You could fit a continent in the gap of your understanding.

I'm going to assume you're just laughably naive, as a best-case scenario.

The Democrats ALWAYS have just enough defectors who will cross the aisle to stop any progressive legislation.

Because they're not a real Party; they're Controlled Opposition.

Every single Dinosaur Democrat needs to be ousted, starting with Schumer.

Boomers lived through the easiest, most rewarding period of American history and immediately and repeatedly ensured that no cohort following them would ever have the same again.

As a group, they are the weakest, most selfish, and least adaptable generation in modern history.

Starring Liam Neeson as Frog and Tom Bateman as Toad (2019)

I was there, Gandalf... checks notes...15 years ago...

"We're too stupid to have better things," cried Society.

This is, unequivocally, the real answer.

Ultimately the DNC is the arbiter of candidates and they're never going to allow a candidate that rocks the status quo.

"Did you know GM had electric car technology in the 60s? And instead all the Boomers got lead poisoning from cars, which society has been suffering under ever since, while the gas and oil companies actively worked to undermine a better way of life across the entire country.

Imagine if you could just jump on a train and get from Boston to DC in 2.5 hours instead of almost 10 hours.

Or San Francisco to LA in 2.5 hours. Or Chicago to Nashville.

That's the time it takes to train from London to Paris."

anti-vaxxers and flat earthers nodding

American Christian applause

2700K is the closest to firelight. I refuse to abandon thousands of years of archetypal affection for cheap LED false suns.

Or a Christmas tree