We still have so far to go. Now it's time to bully the Dems into actually implementing progressive policies instead of giving excuse after excuse of why they can't. Till then, Thanos isn't defeated, and we can easily/likely end back up here or worse.

no, it feels more like when ironman hit Thanos hard enough to draw blood… it was mostly symbolic and the fight was still lost but it showed a miracle can be possible

With how massively they were defeated after this much time? It was.

Also, wanna hear something funny? My buddy from Texas got some cringe text from Bo French, he like AI or photoshopped himself as the Doom Slayer, and my buddy told me this is what motivated him to vote down ballot.

That the other guy was just that cringe! I feel it, tbh.

I don’t think they’re fully blue though, are they? They have one blue senator and I think their congressional districts are still majority Republican aren’t they?

I am not up on my MCU lore.

I liken the current situation to the siege of Minas Tirith by the goblin army. Maybe we've slowed the approach of the battering ram Grond to the gates, but a whole lot has to be done successfully in sequence, before we drive the forces of Sauron from the city and give the Hobbits some breathing room for trekking across Mordor.

Currently we're depending a lot on follow-through by the Democratic caucus to actually push through some accountability and relief. And at the moment they are looking to put the old guard leadership back in place. There's even been talk of a coronation of Schumer, rather than a vote. So some of us are calling / writing to our congresscritters that we want new leadership since the old dudes are known for being the pawl (in the rachet effect).

The long game is to wrest the stellar amounts of capital owned by the plutocratic class, since otherwise they'll only come back with new xenophobic ideologues and new strongman leaders, and new, better propaganda to sway the masses. Democracy and humanity are unlikely to survive the next onslaught.