While I am not thrilled with the Dems, if you get progressive enough dems, they will institute ranked choice voting, which is the path out of a 2 party system. GOP has never done this.

Enacting ranked choice voting at the city and county level then moving on up with it.

I completely agree with you. But I base my vote solely on who has the most of those little road side signs at stop lights.

The US has a 2 party system, until that changes, it will always be this way.

We have two parties that are shifting to the right and prioritize the rich at every turn. And yet, somehow, we're supposed to keep pretending that voting is going to fix anything in this country.

Voting is a bandaid and we're bleeding out at this point.

The better way is to build up political momentum locally, and then keep taking every seat you can

Luckily, there's a back and forth swing in political momentum as well, and right now progressives are making huge strides

We could have reversed course had Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission never been decided the way it was. There have been some doozie political decisions over the years, but that's the one that solidified the destruction of the country.

Also Nixon.

Yes, mostly thanks to him.

That's how billionaires make their money.

I think we all did

you can always go back further, but it's clear that Raegan was a pretty significant stepping stone in general enshitification.

Some say as far back as 1776 when "All men are created equal" was just a blatant lie from the start.

The "some metric" is also on the wrong axis, since it's clearly showing time on the horizontal.

For those that don't know, 1971 is when President Richard Nixon ended the convertibility of U.S. dollars into gold for foreign governments. The final abandonment in 1971 moved the U.S. to a pure fiat money system, where the currency's value is based on government decree rather than a physical commodity like gold.

Reagan slashed taxes for the wealthy and introduced the whole idea of trickle down economics.

These fuckers have been stealing from us for half a century.

So the graph is wrong then, should be Nixon.

I despise this website. It is so wildly misleading, especially since most of the graphs don’t actually radically change until the 80s. There is no one thing that caused everything/could fix everything, it was a lot of policy changes and deregulation through the 70s and 80s.