So, The White Lotus shits all over white people, and wins a ton of Emmy awards.

First of all I'm not a right winger. I'm a far left wing socialist. Second, I'm independent in the sense that I vote Green Party (A left wing party). Both parties are corrupt. It doesn't matter that one is less corrupt (arguable!) than the other. They both are beyond the pale. This is akin to saying that one person taking a school test scored a 42% and the other scored a 37%. Is there a difference? Well that depends on what you mean by a difference. When you say there is a difference you are speaking in a technical sense that 42-37 is 5. So there is a 5% difference. But the difference I'm talking about is whether either side passed the test. In that case the answer is an obvious NO. They both received an F, so in that sense they are no different.

Politics now is all burlesque. The parties have both sold you out years ago. You don't live in a democracy, you live in a corporate oligarchy, where your rights as a citizen no longer exist except as theater.
You are living in a country that has the largest surveillance apparatus in human history, functionally eliminating your privacy (Bush). A country where corporations control the digital public square and have imposed draconian censorship effectively circumventing your first amendment rights (Democrats). A country where habeas corpus and the right to due process has been abolished (Obama's NDAA). A country that locks up it's poor people where they are subjected to cruel and unusual punishment (Joe Biden's 1994 Crime bill).
Pretty much every principle in the constitution has been systematically violated. Given these facts, I thinks it's reasonable to conclude that this government is, without question, illegitimate. We live in a failed system.

Oh, and as for The Squad, they started out with huge potential. I knew of AOC a year before she became a congress woman. I know the person who founded the Justice Democrats; The organization she joined and the platform she ran on. We were all very excited. Fast forward 5 years, and she sold everyone out. She is now just a careerist. She betrayed her left wing base. She was literally sent there to stand up to Pelosi. The Justice Democrats were supposed to be a hostile takeover of the Democratic party by Progressives. In the end they all caved and submitted to the Dems. They vote in lockstep with the rest of them. The Squad is only progressive in their rhetoric not their actions. What's the point of not taking corporate money if you are just going to vote and support the people who do?
#FraudSquad