The Last Billionaires - Why we need a bunch of new Democratic leaders to take over—like right now

22 Feb 2025

The system that got us here can not get us out.



Sometimes, no matter how deeply you feel something, words fail.

In the closing minutes of the latest episode of Next Comes What above, Andrea Pitzer offers an explanation I’ve been in desperate need of. She nails why many Democrats—two-thirds in a recent CNN poll—have been so disappointed or mystified by Democratic members of Congress. To me, many reps seem stunned by what feels like a blitzkrieg attack on our government and Constitution by Donald Trump enabled by Elon Musk.

Andrea said:

 One of the key reasons that legislators are unable or unwilling to do as much as people would like is that the same system that elected Donald Trump elected them.

Just as legacy newspapers are bound to the current US political and economic systems in ways that make it difficult for them to report in unusual times, current elected legislators are, by and large, bound to the current models of politics in ways that make it difficult for them to work against the current administration.

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