So we go through this charade where Democrats talk out of both sides of their mouths, telling us how progressive they are or could be -- if only they had the votes, alas! -- while assuring wealthy and shitty white people nothing will significantly change. And we go along because these people are still preferable to an open, theocratic dictatorship, mainly because Democrats know they lose out in that situation, too.
But the rightward and white-ward tilt of our politics never changes.