What about the fact of Democrats having ZERO POWER in the legislature did you not understand? The Republicans have taken over America lock, stock, and barrel. Legally, there's nothing that can be done to stop them until 2026. By then it won't matter. It already doesn't matter. America is already finished. It's over.
Buddy I promise you I live in a much redder state than you and I didn’t give up in the last 10 years and neither should you. That being said, I do plan on moving to a swing state by 2026 and voting. If you think two or three votes in the house is like the seventh seal, I don’t know what to tell you. You sound like my roommate in 2016 who busted in the door the night of the election saying that trans people they knew on forums had decided to kill themselves and I snapped at him they should at least wait until all the votes are counted and the electoral college was finished. I would rather take my cues from the two black men walking down the street in front of my house the next day with one of them saying to the other they’d survived 400 years of this and they’d survive Trump too.
A Blue Wave in 2026 won't undo the damage done. The world no longer trusts America, and it's going to be a minimum of decades, if not centuries, for that trust to be restored. That trust permitted America a lot of power and now that is gone.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-american-age-is-over