Unfortunately, the reality is that people do not have to put thought into anything before they vote. We would want that to be true, and ideally they would, but that's just not reality.

A more aggressive anti-trump campaign isn't at all what was needed and honestly wouldn't have made a difference. Substantive policy designed to make a immediate tangible improvement in the lives of working people is what has been needed. Regardless an accelerated 3 month timeline probably wasn't enough time to make a difference message wise, given how siloed and disjointed our media landscape is in the United States.

Like it or not, the Neoliberalism embraced by the Democratic parties leadership is just as cult like in it's thinking as Maga-Christianity.

The education system in the United States has been intentionally been attacked and made unaffordable for this very reason. Reagan wrote about the dangers of an educated proletariat. He followed through on a policy level.

At a federal level, studies have shown that the wants of voters have close to zero impact on policy implementation. Unless you have money for lobbyist, your vote largely doesn't matter. Money trumps your vote. Change in the US won't come at the ballot box, it is going to require good minded people to organize an flex our economic muscle. The US economy runs on consumption, and that's where our leverage is. We need to organize a general consumption strike. Starve them of the money they use against us.

It will be painful, but that ship has sailed. The future is going to hurt regardless.