Once, the late Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill, Jr., Speaker of the House of Representatives, told someone that, "All politics is local." This now has been repeated so often that it ought to be stitched on a sampler and hung on the wall of the common room at the Home for Aging Hacks. What's always been interesting to me is what the Tipster left unsaid. If all politics is local, then all government is local, too, and an attack on one level of government generally turns into an attack on them all. Right now, all government at every level is under attack by the forces of organized wealth and its goons. The faces of the assailants change according to circumstances. In some places, they are bankers and financiers. In some other places, they are the extraction extremists of the energy industries. In some other places, they wear uniforms.

Now, in countries that already are dictatorships, this doesn't mean much, and in countries that are basically oligarchical kleptocracies, it means even less. But in democratic countries, allowing the forces of wealth to organize themselves within the institutions of self-government is to invite a deadly form of parasite into the body politic. Brexit happened supposedly because a bunch of bankers who organized themselves into a supra-government over the rest of Europe but chaos infected the entire process but with Russain interference and diversity hatred its a real mess imo. Ask a Brit and they see without Ireland labor votes they will never have a labor win again.

The US is the largest and most diverse democracy on Earth and is obviously under attack from the inside steered by a rich bully.. If republican voting suppression we Democrats may never win an election again and its game over for democracy.

So what is good about democracy now that it is on the chopping block?
Build back better is for people who are not rich and hasn't happened on this scale since FDR.