> Please don't try to convince people to accept the current abuses of the system as inevitable or "both sides" when they clearly aren't.

Please stop only waking up under a Republican administration, or even worse just under the administration of a wrestling valet game show host.

> clearly aren't.

"Oh, please" and "it's just so obvious." If it's so clear, you should have less trouble explaining it than other things. And that doesn't mean explaining the bad things that your enemies do in power, but explaining how your friends weren't doing those things and actively ending them when they were in power.

Clinton did the massive deregulation that defined this century. Obama didn't prosecute anyone for 2008 financial crimes*, let Citigroup pick his cabinet, bailed out the banks, and flooded the stock market with free cash. Biden is literally the Delaware credit card prevent student loans from being discharged in bankruptcy guy, he had great people in Kanter, Khan and Chopra and undermined and ignored them consistently while breaking a railroad strike.

All absolute dirtbags who did what Republicans could have never gotten away with, because partisans who pretend to care fall asleep when Democrats are in power. A lot of consulting firms and nonprofits get flooded with state cash when Democrats are in power, and don't when Republicans are in power (and vice versa.) Patronage is more powerful than ethics when it comes to the middle class.

[*] Or for a worldwide torture network, or the people who admitted destroying evidence of the worldwide torture network. Or for the intentional lies that began two Middle East wars.

This form of laissez faire capitalism looks equally prominent in Europe at the moment. The problem seems not tied to any particular administration, but rather a culture of the Neo-liberal ideology which is pervasive across the entire capital and the governing classes of the western world (probably even wider).