It continues to be immensely frustrating every time I see someone go "I'm disappointed that <politician> signed onto <terrible thing>", because whenever I try to explain to people that this sort of shit is unavoidable in how entrenched politics work and that you can't solve it with better politicians, it's *never* taken seriously

Like, yes, *of course* this happened, exactly like others and I already warned you months or years ago, because this is *always* what happens, this is the kind of outcome that this system produces and always has, and if you'd actually listened then you could've put all that political energy towards something that actually effects change, instead of just cheering on politicians