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[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Voting. They were given the option to vote, but chose to be the type that "don't care much about politics"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Why would they bother? Who actually represents them? Both major parties are corporate captured.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

One of them isnt trying install a theocracy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

No, they just stepped aside and profited from donations while it happened

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sure buddy, Dems might be nearly uselesss because of that, but they weren't actively trying to overthrow the goverment or kill democracy

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

No, they just stepped aside and profited from donations while it happened

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Did you ever canvass for any alternative candidate or do you expect them to just rise out of the ether?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So replace the term “both parties” with “the only party” by categorically discarding all faith and worship in all political parties that have done absolutely nothing for anyone of the working class.

Then make a new party that’s even better.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That's what the Greens and PSL elected to do. They're the best way out that doesn't involve bloodshed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And I'm sure their policies would introduce runoff voting for future elections; but as it stands, most voters are currently voting out of fear of "the other big party" - for which voting Green poses an extreme risk.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

but as it stands, most voters are currently voting out of fear of "the other big party"

Which is a confidence game. The big parties only matter because people have been convinced that they matter. Once this illusion is broken, real progress can begin, but until it is broken the US will simply continue its vicious cycle into oblivion.

Besides, what chance to Dems have of winning at this rate anyway? What chance did they have leading up to this past election as they covered up Biden's dementia, enabled a genocide, and imposed a candidate of their choosing after denying the people actual democracy? Are they redeemable?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What, the anti-nuclear "green party" with the vaccine hesitant Jill Stein? Pass. We need a scientifically aligned, pro-labor party not a career spoiler candidate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Yeah, because things are going great as they are, right?