What American Democracy? The one where half the presidents in my lifetime lost the Democratic vote? Where the legislature is controlled by gerrymandering? Where journalists like Julian Assange are persecuted by the government? Where we give unlimited support to the Zionist genocide?
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Yep the one where reforms with 93% of the populations support never go to the floor because someone paid a genuinely laughably pathetically small bribe to a couple of octogenarians.
Democracy in the US is a fantasy, like the American dream
You have to be asleep to believe it…
Idk, we legalized cannabis and cops stopped harassing us in CA/OR. It seems like if people literally just tried we could accomplish so much. I mean, I literally don't know one person even half interested in politics as much as I am. I know tons of people that think there's no hope in doing anything worthwhile (besides having kids).
It was created with votes and votes can still change it. For now.
Get involved.
They threw out my vote in the 2020 Iowa caucus, did you forget?
I don't really get the point of this type of comment. Used in bad faith, it clearly is meant to detail the conversation and sideline the point of the article that was posted. In good faith, maybe venting? What am I missing?
It's meant to mock the idea that there's a "cage match" between democracy and fascism.
There isn't.
It's a cage match between Pinochet and Hitler.
The problem isn't exactly apathy. The problem is that the system has failed everyone but the rich and powerful, and there are zero signs that it will improve. A lot of people don't see a difference between Trump and Biden, because their lives are hopeless either way. The American Empire is collapsing, and the politicians are doing nothing to stop it.
Apathy is exactly the problem. If all the people who could vote did vote, we'd have a much different country.
GOPs vote in every election and get what they want eventually.
Do I support active genocide? Or do I support the guy who has always been pro-genocide but is too incomplete to do it?
Neither. I support neither.
And oh ya, crumbling nation, rampant corruption, richer rich, poorer poor, consistent loss of rights, etc. On both sides.
So you have a lot of complaints about everything, and your solution is to choose to do nothing? Thanks for removing yourself from the decision making process for the rest of us.
It's funny that you're getting down voted. The same folks who can't be bothered to vote against Trump are enraged that you called them out.
So, we should cut our nose's off to spite out faces?
Suppose the people were loudly opposed to an active genocide, and the media and genocide funders just didn't listen.