Trump is held to a standard of hatred and cruelty. If he was visited by 3 ghosts in the night and suddenly started enacting pro-social policies that helped non-wealthy people, Republican voters, even the ones benefitting, would turn on him as decades of right wing media has trained them to do. Republicans don’t hold the same standards, they approve of cheating, of violence, of malice, of threats, of dishonesty when they’re convinced it’s to help their tribe win.

The neoliberals claim to have more enlightened standards. And no, spending months on the pulpit declaring correctly that democracy is under threat, and then going on a swank vacation when she loses sends a demoralizing message, and Biden doing something as corrupt as Trump sends an even more powerful version of that message.

Hardly matters though, nothing can improve without a major party that stands against the greed of the capitalists in defense of laborers, and the capitalists only fund parties that maintain their economic oppression, so all we’re voting for is the velocity of our decline. A little slower under (D) with rainbow pins for all the homeless and destitude our economy makes by design, and a little faster under ® with scapegoating and state violence against those same victims. Either way, our beloved 🌈economy🇺🇸 will be protected from the needs of the society that perversely lives in servitude to it instead of the other way around.