As a humanities graduate, I have to admit I feel a little schadenfreude. However, maybe we can work together to fix the economy now.

You are right that there will be a reversion to the median for individual politicians, but parties definitely change. The republicans have been drifting right since Truman; the democrats can shift left. It will take sustained effort, but every progressive who wins a primary shifts the needle a little.

One caveat - we need to get corporate money out of politics. Like, completely. Corporations aren’t people and their donations aren’t free speech. There should also be an iron-clad cap on individual donations (no Musk-Rats dumping hundreds of millions on one party). Some countries have publicly-funded elections - a powerful bulwark against corruption.

This will actually work. People need to register as democrats (gross, I know) and vote for progressives in the primaries. Make the democrats the party you want.

The other way will also work.

Great! A product for people who may not be perverts but like sucking the cock of an evil corporation!

Good news: you’re free to decide the meaning of your own life. For me, it’s helping people, loving my family, and enjoying beauty.