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Citation needed on that one. The media is owned by the same people who own the politicians.
No the problem is that Democrats are all talk and no action and people like yourself are subconsciously programmed to always invent or repeat excuses for why that is. You think that Democrats are the good guys just by virtue of Republicans being the bad guys. Unfortunately, we don't live in a Marvel movie with clearly defined heroes and villains battling it out. In the real world, they can all be villians. Some just dress their villainy in flowery language.
I didn't say they were the good guys. They are better. And that is the salient fact when it's a two party system. They are beholden to the billionaires but they pull more to the left than the gop. It is because they're financed by the billionaires that they can't go too progressive or else they lose their funding (and ability to get elected). And they're not pedo supporting, full on fascist and bat shit crazy which is also a good thing. But idiots who fall for the right wing propaganda see them as as bad or worse than the gop. Those who get confused and become too unmotivated / lazy to vote are just as bad. You can certainly argue the democrats aren't progressive enough, and I totally agree with that; but they are monumentally better than the gop right now. Not voting for the dems is cutting off your nose to spite your face; it's stupid. That we have a Republican government is purely because too many Americans are idiots and fall for the right wing media.