A New Declaration of Independence.

[Frank D. Lincoln]

Although in general Democratic politicians are much better than Republicans, our politicians collectively have failed us. They always end up looking out for their own best interests at the expense of ours.

Also, the American oligarchy have continuously gamed the system to protect their interests, which is why the rich and the big corporations never pay their fair share in taxes (and over the decades their tax rates keep falling), the federal minimum wage never gets raised, we never get universal healthcare, the social safety net is never secure, Big Pharma is never reigned in the way it is in other countries (although Democrats have had some success with this), and income inequality continues to grow without limit (and of course this will accelerate wildly after Trump is inaugurated). Generally speaking, the American oligarchy wouldn't be able to accomplish these things without both Democrats and Republicans being complicit to some degree, whether consciously or unconsciously.

Our democracy is broken. It's always been broken. Even worse, it's about to be replaced with an autocracy.

I wish that the American citizenry would rise up, shut the system down, and reform our government in a way that works for all of us. In the absence of doing that, we're all going to end up as serfs.

An excerpt from the Declaration of Independence:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

"...deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed..."

These powers don't derive from our politicians or the American oligarchy, they derive from the American citizenry as a whole.

That we think we're powerless is only psychological. The Declaration of Independence grants us the authority to collectively reform our government whenever we want to.