as for bernie and pramila.. they are not speaking about what they are doing daily to create change as current politicians, they just want to say soundbites they think people want to hear to earn votes at the next election, so they can continue to get a salary. all they care about is to stay employed, not to actually change things
the Dems's dont care about your tax money being used for services you need. they actually used their power recently to shut down government services for americans, purely to blackmail government into trying to charge people more tax to fund services for foreigners*

*im british and although free healthcare (should i ever visit america) benefits me, i can atleast see how such practices end up taking services away from americans to fund such, which is counter-intuitive for americans to want to side with
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as for other demonstrations like individuals being '1st amendment auditors' well there are some that do it the right way, but many just do it to agitate public servants, just for entertainment and clicks,(get paid per view of ads on youtube) which the agitating entertainment acts they record ends up putting the 'auditors' into a bad frame and ends up with public servants wanting less contact with the public by then restricting access to publicly funded buildings/services

im all for the auditors that do things right and cause public servants to get educated on their actual roles of serving the public, but many times when its done for entertainment, not education.. things go the wrong way

these organisations that pretend to support redressing government could have been a potential great resource to train people in their rights and methods to redress government and create change, but most of the time its just an entertainment gathering place to get paid to continue gathering people to get paid