The Congress of the United States of America
WARNING:
Liberals who believe I should be grateful to the Democrats.
Liberals who don’t want to crack a history book.
Liberals who must protect their fragility—you might as well skip this essay.
It’s okay to unsubscribe, unfollow, and head over to Bluesky. The history of my people, along with other marginalized groups, is being erased. And you know they’re not stopping there. I have neither the time nor the energy to waste giving attention and accolades to political grifters.
They’re everywhere in mainstream media—even on Substack! We talk of them as champions of democracy: AOC, Bernie Sanders, Cory Booker, Hakeem Jeffries, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi, Pete Buttigieg, Gavin Newsom, Chuck Schumer, and other politicians and liberal pundits. Even conservatives like John Bolton and Trump collaborators like Michael Cohen get airtime as “voices of resistance.”
But history says otherwise. These same leaders have spent their careers protecting the status quo. They fought harder against grassroots movements and their own constituencies than against oligarchs. They gave us Kente cloth and kneeling instead of justice. They offered theatrics like “The Fighting Oligarchy Tour” instead of real confrontation. They avoided questions of war, poverty, and racism because donors demanded silence.
A wise political commentator recently said: Americans don’t want justice, they want relief. They don’t want change, they want comfort. He was right. Cravings for relief are what keep us chasing these hollow figures. The cycle repeats: Trump rages, chaos spreads, and the public clings to the same politicians who failed to stop him before.
Consider a small sampling:
Chuck Schumer was once despised for surrendering to Republicans, yet he still leads.
Kamala Harris built her career locking people up, then rebranded as “progressive.”
Bernie Sanders and AOC talk of revolution, then fall in line when the party calls.
Democrats staged kneeling rituals for George Floyd while continuing to fund homicidal police and wars.
Remember Nancy Pelosi and other congressional Democrats kneeling in African Kente cloth “in remembrance” of George Floyd? We got a circus performance instead of serious action. It was insulting.
These are not our saviors. They are caretakers of a system that feeds on our despair.
The desperation to oppose Trump blinds us. People accept any opposition as good opposition. But the truth is brutal: these leaders are not fighting fascism—they are managing it. They treat it as a tool, a useful enemy that keeps donations flowing and voters scared.
The masses must face a hard fact: neither “Team Blue” nor “Team Red” offers escape. Both serve the same oligarchs. Both choose compromise over confrontation. Both are terrified of the political war that must be waged to defeat fascism.
If war is being waged against us—and it is—why do, we expect the generals of yesterday’s defeats to lead us now?
The answer cannot be the same circle of names. The answer cannot be another election where we are told to choose which caretaker of decline, we prefer. The answer must come from elsewhere. At this point, no one is coming to save us.
When do we stop looking for saviors—and start becoming our own?
People fear putting their bets on newcomers and keep hoping the ones in office will somehow overcome the system to correct problems.
The current gerrymandering competition has blue states rearranging their districts to gain a few more seats in Congress. Will they end up helping or harming Black voters with this?
These are such frightening times and being assaulted daily, even multiple times a day, by the latest Republican fascist proclamations and activities has people seeking comfort.
Preach it!
“ They treat it as a tool, a useful enemy that keeps donations flowing and voters scared.”
This sums up neatly and succinctly what I’ve said about why congressional democrats are not apoplectic about what is happening. Follow the money.
I’ve concluded that we are ruled by a plutocracy rather than an oligarchy. It connotes that the leverage of wealth alone is what animates our elected officials.
The plutocrats’ minions do their work for them so they don’t soil their hands in the dirty business of impoverishing others. Think Chamber of Commerce, lobbyists, policy think tanks and more. These organizations have been given political legitimacy by our judiciary as constitutionally protected free speech and the redress of grievances.