I think it is important to not satisfy yourself with what you have for fear of it getting worse. I also think it’s telling that you consider the Democratic Party merely imperfect, like your saucy uncle at the BBQ, and not evil, like a genocidal institution of white supremacy and global capitalist imperialism. Convenient that it is also up to the moral purity of the masses to prevent that violence as well, since that frees us of any interrogation into the inevitability of these systemic forces.

Guess the socioeconomic classes of those “founders,” and whether the current state of affairs in any way contradicts their beliefs in slavery as a necessary evil to maintain the composition of liberalism’s righteousness, or their willfullness to remove tyrranical rulers when they themselves began dismissing legal institutions within fifty years of establishing them (no, not to make them better, but to commit genocide against indigenous nations despite court rulings).

I wish this was just imperfect, but the Democratic Party is an existential threat not only to the vulnerable groups they purportedly advocate for, but all life on this planet.The gravity of that is unfortunately too heavy to satisfy ourselves with, “not everyone is perfect.” I can’t help but wonder if you’re among the people who have been targetted by their violence their entire lives, and whether you even defer to those people when forming your stance on this institution.