Democrats aren’t backed into a corner. All they need is a strong stand for workers rights, issues facing the middle class, and they’d win a ton of supporters. But that would put them at odds with the almighty corporations that line their campaign coffers, so they will not. Instead they focus on identity politics, and other polarizing issues to keep them at odds with the conservatives. To me it often seems that they’re the good cops in the Good Cop/Bad Cop routine, and ultimately they want the same thing as the Republicans, to retain their own power at all costs, and hopefully get rich doing it. If not, why haven’t they reversed Trump’s corporate tax cut? Why haven’t they proposed legislation to codify abortion rights? Whether they could get it passed or not is a whole other conversation, but they haven’t even presented anything. They’ve just let the Republicans get all sorts of changes pushed through and then shrugged their shoulders and said “identity matters”. Yeah no shit, but that’s not going to fix America. This is where I usually run up against protest from serious Democrats because they believe in their party, and I’m definitely losing faith. Maybe I’m seeing what truly is, or maybe I’m falling victim to all of that propaganda we talked about. Anyways, like you said, it’s definitely starting to feel like one of those sci-fi dystopias where the corpos run the country, and wield the government against their enemies like a weapon. I still believe in the United States, and I don’t think we’re cooked yet, but we have a lot of work in front of us.