If you don’t believe in the state, or if you don’t associate enlightenment notions with the American project, then rolling back democratic protections for working people simply doesn’t matter. If America itself is immoral, then who cares what the governing apparatus looks like? ^ honesly feel like this a lot of the time, mostly because of stuff like You can multiply this dynamic across the Biden administration in every important area. Enforcers moved against big meatpackers, the USDA signed contracts with big meatpackers. The Antitrust Division brought antitrust cases against big tech to open AI to new entrants, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer killed big tech antitrust legislation and brought in big tech lobbyists to craft AI policy. They're pathetic, and nobody seems to want to be able to to anything valuable. The only reason I bother to vote is to keep people out of camps and the dems are running on anti-immigration and keeping trans kids out of sports