What do I need to move on from or do about it?
Stop playing the blame game and do literally anything. You're projecting your own personal inaction and frustration onto progressives.
In a constitutional crisis, while the last shred of democracy is at stake, do you simply vote your way out of the mess?
There’s no checks and balances
Then you admit there is a constitutional crisis?
Playing the blame game doesn't solve anything or improve the situation. Maybe you need to move on?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_backsliding <- You are here.
What are you going to do about it?
But that’s not how the government works.
That's the problem - the government isn't working.
Have you been paying attention? We have a felon as our president, who is ignoring his oath to uphold the constitution and is bypassing due process. He is also in contempt of court. He is committing crimes daily and is destroying our economy and our country's soft power.
We're supposed to have checks and balances. Republicans are trying to make Trump effectively immune to being held in contempt of court.
Are we supposed to sit around and consent to this?
A critical mass of Americans need to demand better - and soon. I do what is in my power to move things towards that direction.
What are you doing?
Do you seriously think the country can wait until 2026 at this rate?
Did I suggest tearing anything down? Calling for reform doesn't involve tearing anything down.
As it stands, there won't be anything left to reform or save if we let Trump have his way with the country.
Both sides are the same is a lazy attitude and doing it while there’s no alternative is criminal.
I said they are both traitors. Not that the parties are the same.
We need to demand voting and election system reform after Trump is impeached or is otherwise removed from power.
Voting harder for Democrats isn't the solution, that's for sure.
If Democrats wanted to take responsibility, they would've shifted to the left and appealed to the many countless disenfranchised voters.
I feel it's fair to say that both major parties are traitors to the American people at this point.
I've moved on, I'm just informing others that the Democrats are responsible for the situation we're all in more than most know.
Thanks for your concern.
Imagine the Clinton campaign, the DNC, and mainstream media colluding in 2015 to boost Trump as a pied piper candidate because they thought he was "unelectable" - and Hillary losing to him.
Oh wait, that's reality. You don't need to imagine.
It’s not a lack of trustworthiness or sanity, but the impression of.
I disagree. The situation here in America is quite insane.
Off the top of my head: microplastics/PFAS contamination in and around our food/etc. and response has been very lackluster (and many individuals likely don't follow best practices to avoid microplastic leaching and to avoid contaminating their food with the chemicals found in non-stick surfaces), there's a fresh water shortage crisis that we are unprepared to deal with, there is widespread PFAS contamination and other contamination of our fresh water, contaminated biosolids are being using to fertilize crops and are causing PFAS contamination of soil, water, and agriculture, fracking has the potential to contaminate groundwater and air and the practice is supported by politicians on both sides (see the EPA's final assessment, and look at places affected like Dimock, PA), there are many instances of toxic dumping by corporations with no response or remediation (e.g. by Tyson).
Some crises are more reported on than others, but it's pretty clear our country's water supply is overwhelmingly in jeopardy, with only about 100 chemicals regulated out of many thousands (e.g. see the EWG's reporting on this issue). Our food quality is generally in the gutter and is in desperate need of regulation and we also have a topsoil crisis.
We also generally have a health care crisis, a housing/homelessness crisis, we have an economy that doesn't work for the majority of Americans, 1/3 of Americans don't vote in the presidential election and are disenfranchised or politically apathetic, and the list goes on.
News organizations, and the experts that are generally put forward, only seem to care about maintaining positive public perception of authority and governance - likely to maintain public order. There are plenty of experts who are sounding the alarm or are working diligently to address these issues, but these people usually aren't the same people that are on mainstream news telling us everything is okay.
And I disagree with your assertion that American leadership, particularly the presidency, has been trustworthy or sane across the decades. There are so many points I could argue, but at this point I've already spent too much energy on this response and we likely just don't see eye-to-eye on these issues - which is fine. I could elaborate further, but I feel there are many others better equipped to comprehensively critique recent presidents.
If Democrats could've budged even a little bit to the left, they would've won and stopped Trump. But they couldn't. They also couldn't hold primaries before the presidential election.
You don't need to be a psychic with a crystal ball to determine that Kamala couldn't win, especially not with her strategy of shifting to the right and appealing to voters that literally don't exist.
Democrats spent more energy systematically suing third-parties off the ballot than attracting the voters they were so afraid of losing to third-parties.