This is pretty common in the US unfortunately. Lots of union leadership and membership both lean hard right. Part of it is due to reactionary thinking and constant propaganda, and part is due to lots of people just being fucking stupid and illogical.

Americans are taught since birth that if they work hard at low wages, they will eventually become billionaires.

Poor education and lack of critical thinking skills; it's not exactly uncommon. In my neck of the woods, most trades workers support the Conservatives, unionized or not

We already don’t have them.

What if 8 years of election fraud bullshit was the setup to poison the waters when they actually use the techniques?

This is Russian psyops 101: play/fund both sides so when both are revealed corrupt, the populace is too confused to know what’s real.

So republicans say, for years, “Your Russian election claim is a hoax!” And then we get, “They stole the 2020 election!”

Now we have more statistical information showing signs of manipulation, but because Republicans have called out their opponent as manipulating elections, researchers are afraid too report facts based on voting tabulation.

We are in crisis. The country is socially fractured. We’ve been manipulated by our enemy (Russian oligarchs/mob/Putin). They repeated the lies enough that MAGA will believe any dumb shit while Democrats look like they are using Republican insults or tactics.

We’ve all been duped.

Idk why you would when they’ve failed so often for so long in that country.

Organize en masse. Look at what Nepal was able to do. Also be sure to have a permenant solution to corruption that the majority can agree on. I prefer Prof. Richard Wolff's ideas personally, and I think avoiding centralized power as much as possible is of great importance.

Also have a voting system that isn't on Discord that is very hard to hack by experienced hackers. I think blockchain voting can work very well for this. I understand the word "blockchain" is associated with cryptocurrency, but that can be changed. The voting system must also be transparent. If using software, open source, cryptographically signed software is a must.

If there are three or four points/demands that can be focused on that are easy to remember, even better. Look at how Bernie was able to bring the idea of single payer healthcare to the masses. Maybe something like this:

1. All businesses must be owned by the workers and run democratically.

2. Hard wealth cap of $50 million, including unrealized gains, tied to inflation. Enough to comfortably retire, but not enoigh to buy political favors.

3. All basic necessities such as food, water, shelter, sewage, higher education, healthcare, internet, etc. provided to everyone free of charge paid for by taxes.

4. Universal basic income tied to inflation so that people who can't or don't want to work can still persue hobbies and produce art without worry about failure.

I’ve been told to vote for better Dems for 25 years, while they ratfuck anyone even slightly progressive.

They either ratfuck them in the primary with some rigged primary process, or ratfuck then after the primary by allowing Dems to run independent and split the voter base, withholding endorsements, giving half hearted endorsements and when the progressive candidate loses use the outcome of their ratfucking to justify moving further right because anyone left of Nixon is “unelectable”

If one miraculously makes it through those two ratfucks, they will then do anything in their power to make sure they have as little influence as possible on the party, David Hogg found this out firsthand, or in the halls of power, like when they passed over progressives to put a cancer riddled and dying Neolib into a committee chair.

If insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results, it’s not clear to me how continuing to support the Dems is going to start working. The neolibs own the party and they don’t seem very interested in divesting their power.

Maybe it’s time for a new party. The danger of splitting the vote when you are already losing and even in the face of authoritarian christofascism somehow less popular than authoritarian christofascism makes me think there’s not much to lose