An understandable sentiment. But I believe I've been saying "democracy is at risk" since Reagan. Forty years later: same ****. You who are already locked into voting for Harris in 2028: it's kinda hard listening to you talk about democracy and freedom and all, when your votes for the next 8 years are already cast in iron. I'm teaching Frederick Douglass these days. You know, on the plantation, there were mean overseers and "nice" overseers. They weren't called Democrats and Republicans though. I like this part: "Few privileges were esteemed higher, by the slaves of the out-farms, than that of being selected to do errands at the Great House Farm. It was associated in their minds with greatness. A representative could not be prouder of his election to a seat in the American Congress, than a slave on one of the out-house farms would be of his election to do errands at the great House Farm. They regarded it as evidence of great confidence reposed in them by their overseers; and it was on this account, as well as a constant desire to be out of the field from under the driver's lash, that they esteemed it a high privilege, one worth careful living for. He was called the smartest and most trusty fellow, who had this honor conferred upon him most frequently. The competitors for this office sought as diligently to please their overseers, and the office-seekers in the political parties seek to please and deceive the people. The same traits of character might be seen in Colonel Lloyd's slaves , as are seen in the slaves of the political parties." Frederick Douglass, breaking it down since 1845.
