CMV: I don't think much progressive change will come to America nor the Democratic party in the future.

Hey, as the title says, I don't really think that much change in favor of progressive policies will come to the USA and the Democratic party. Mainly, it's about AOC losing her bid for the oversight committee to an old man with throat cancer and with all those old people in charge. Then, my thoughts have shifted more pessimistic towards the Democrats, that they're just Republican-lite, that they don't care about voters - just their wallets, that they benefit either way of they lose or win because they keep getting richer, that they will never change because it benefits them. I'm 17 years old, and I've done my fair share of volunteering for the Democrats. I've written letters and sent them to swing states, I've done door knocking, I volunteered with a local organization to get people to vote for the Democrats. I used to be blue to the core, obsessed with the past accomplishments of the Democratic party. I was (and still kind of am) obsessed with the New Deal, obsessed with the Great Society because I truly believe in their policies and I still thought that there is some semblance of the New Deal in the modern Democratic Party. But now I think the ones at the top of the Democrats just don't care about progress or what's good for the people, just their careers. I believe if Harris won, she would have been infinitely better than the current elect, but that the current condition of the Democratic party would not allow the progressive ideal to bloom in America even if she got elected. I feel horribly apathetic at the current state of the Union and I severely hope to be proven wrong.