In recent weeks, there has been a trend of Democratic-backed candidates making gains in seats typically held by Republican-endorsed electives, which could be an early warning sign for the GOP as the November midterms draw nearer, though the party has largely dismissed their impact.
Democratic-backed candidates flipped three seats in mayoral and city council elections in Whittier, California, and at the center of these elections were issues being discussed nationwide, like the impact of federal immigration enforcement as well as the economy.
Perfect summation of US politics right there. There are ways around these limitations like ranked-choice voting (or similar), but both parties have a vested interested in actively blocking any change that could potentially break up their monopoly. In the meantime, our options are basically to continue trying to vote in more progressive candidates to represent us (and hope they don’t get corrupted as quickly by corporate-run politics), or take more “aggressive” action and become a targetted enemy of the state.
Yes, exactly that. History is littered with dead empires though, so it’s not like things are in any way immutable, no matter how hard it might seem right now to imagine meaningful changes ever being made to the US political system.