Are Non-Conservatives Losing The Right To Vote?

Consider the following:

1. 131 House Democrats helped passed the current military budget that is significantly higher than the last military budget (click here for the source).
   
2. Democrats from both the House and the Senate voted to ease Dodd-Frank regulations on most banks. 33 House Democrats voted with the GOP while 17 Democratic Senators did the same (click here and there).
   
3. 6 Democrats vote to confirm Gina Haspel as CIA Director despite her past involvement in the use of torture on detainees (click here).

What we should note about the above stories is that they are very recent. In fact, all but one of the above links to their respective stories were posted in May. The link to the story about Senate Democrats supporting a rollback on Dodd-Frank regulations was posted in March.

In addition, why not travel back to the Presidential election of 2016. The Democratic Party's nominee played an essential roll in the recent U.S. assisted  regime change in Libya and lent strong support, if not assistance to the process, to the results of the 2009 coup in Honduras. And that Democratic nominee also supported the TPP despite the fact that such trade agreements weakens American democracy by making U.S. laws accountable to trade agreement tribunals when there is a dispute.

At this point it is important to remember the following line from Martin Luther King Jr.'s I Have A Dream speech (click here):

we cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro in Mississippi cannot vote, and the Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote.

We should note two points here. First, look at how similar, according to King,  having nothing for which to vote became to not having the right to vote. Second, we should note that when one replaces key words in King's speeches with fill-in-the-blanks, some of the problems experienced back then become all too similar to the problems suffered by even more people today.

We non-conservatives can't afford to be satisfied when the only reason we have to vote for a given Democratic Party candidate is that they are not a Republican Party candidate. For when that happens, we find that we are no longer voting for Democratic blue candidates over Republican red candidates. Instead, we find that we are voting for x shades of grey candidates where the color grey is given to almost all of the candidates from both parties indicating that they really belong to the same political party: the party that protects wealth and power.

Yes, we can't afford to be satisfied and yet our voting shows that we are. It's not until we untie our lines to the Democratic Party that we will have a significant voice in our government. And my guess is that we have some conservative counterparts who feel the same way about the Republican Party and its candidates.