In our lifetimes, we have never witnessed less effective leadership at the federal level of government than we are seeing daily. Everyday we see our rights as individuals compromised, our health endangered, our society degraded, our ability to improve our status handicapped. We see complete stonewalling on gun safety issues that result in nearly 40,000 deaths per year and do nothing. We see incompetence and lies that result in our current inability to do what ALL world powers can do to even TEST for a virus. We have someone in a position of power who willfully lies and poses merely to serve his ego and personal desires. We have corporate leadership and an upper . 1% (by income) that do nothing but line their own pockets and those of their shareholders at the expense of those who barely scrape by week to week and are still declared "essential" but never rewarded.
We as a society do not even deem it a RIGHT of another human to have essential healthcare, a proper education, a minimum shelter, or even enough food to survive.
We as a society are as sick as I could ever imagine the WEALTHIEST SOCIETY IN HISTORY to ever be. I am embarrassed by this and I vote accordingly. But voting is so rigged to favor the wealthy and the less populous areas of the country now (an individual vote in North Dakota is worth FAR more than a vote in California, New York, Florida, Texas, or even Colorado) that voting is no longer even an effective way to affect change. I am discouraged. I can not say I have any further faith in THIS version of democracy. This is not a democracy. It is a disguised version of oligarchy built over the past 50 years to bring us to a dictatorship by the wealthy, for the wealthy, and OF THE LABOR OF THE REST OF US. Stand up people. We need to take them down.