Prior to Trump's second term Biden increased ICE funding to their highest levels and accelerated the building of ICE detention centers across the country.

I think there's valuable nuance in noting exceptions to the rule about Dems, but also, the parties are systemically entrenched and the insiders certainly collude on behalf of the status quo.

"I agree. People are in denial."

"Edit: did this really happen?"

LOL

So since AOC and Sanders will NEVER get into a position of power, we're just fucked right?

There is no way out of this except war. Voting doesn't work.

yeah, Democrats are complicit in plenty of ways, but not just as complicit 🙄

I can't tell if the hyperbole is just because the culture is so right wing and the assumption is that they need to shock liberals out of their stupor, but tbh I don't think liberals even like the Democrats that much, there is plenty of hate and frustration with the Dems coming from liberals these days ... at least that's my experience

Obama expanded drone strikes. He used them for wrong, did it for years, and got a fucking Nobel Peace Prize for it. Fuck that guy.

There's also not a lot of willingness to roll things back whenever the Republicans lose power for a time. Like, for the sake of argument, lets say Trump and his allies fail to sufficiently gerrymander or rig or cancel or just win the next couple of elections, and manage to lose control of both congress and the presidency. Does anyone really expect all those new ICE agents they hired to be suddenly fired, rather than just continue to do what they're doing without as much media attention driving public ire against them once the president isnt going on rants about deporting people all the time?

And if that doesn’t describe the current guy to a tee.