Hello from the great white north
Fair, I see a lot of Europeans on Lemmy so that tends to be where my brain goes for non-US on here.
I get real irate about the "must vote dem or you'll never get third party" because its gaslighting. No matter which election, what year of the cycle, there is no time in no way that libs will entertain the idea of a 3rd party. Voting dem only rewards them for moving right, and they use it as justification to sprint even further. Hell, half of Kamala's campaign has been "I'm rolling with republicans."
Every action the DNC takes is to keep power isolated to the chosen establishment. Kamala recently paid lip service to the need for aid in Gaza and a hold on weapons to Israel, then sent somebody out to do stump speeches assuring that policy opinion hasn't changed, she's still all in on Israel, and she was just trying to shut up progressives.
This isn't a sudden happenstance, its been a long road leading to this, and Democrats are actively complicit - Fascism is just the end game of capitalism. Hell, Musk just sued an advertiser into paying him for ads. Freedom!
A newer neighbor across the street from me started flying a Trump flag, and it's taking everything in me to not find a Femboy Supremacy flag to hang up somewhere.