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Amazing how when government wants to fuck you... nothing can stop them.
Enforcing basic laws against ruling classes: IMPOSSIBLE!!!!
Nothing... except voting.
What are we to do? Vote? What a crazy, unrealistic, outlandish idea.
Gerrymandering to fuck is a thing. There was a story yesterday or the day before about the Mayor who was elected in the south and got blocked by the white city planners or whatever they’re called. Sure, courts ruled in his favor, but the article pointed out how Black residents hadn’t been aware that there was an election process for years because mayors kept being appointed without their input.
I’m not saying not to vote. I’m saying that has also been neutralized in places and that’s it’s far from what its idealized state would be.
Political process is captured. Voting is a futile exercise under the current regime.
It was designed that way too!
Ever since fall of USSR, elites decided that they can do whatever and that's what they have done while brain dead boomers enabled it with their votes lol
We got a society the boomers deserve!
Patently untrue at the executive level. Each of the last presidential elections was easily winnable by the other candidate. Even Bush v Gore was avoidable if more people in Florida voted blue. Our elections for representatives are fucked by gerrymandering, but that does not factor into our current Supreme Court who made this decision. Fact of the matter is, if more people would have voted for Hillary (and we all know the tiny margins by now) we would have reproductive rights, empowered federal agencies, and a healthier democracy. We just failed and we need to self-reflect on that instead of just throwing our hands up and saying "rigged" and I would hope after the last few years, everyone can understand why.
My dear child, you got so much more to learn about the political process and how the regime works over all.
If you think that your preferred guy is on your side in anyway... holly shit, we got another generation of this degenerate political circle jerk.
As MLK once said... the bootlicker is peasants' greatest enemy as he is the one enforcing the status quo with his "reasonableness"
Conspiracy theories, "XINOs", the uni party, "the votes are rigged". Where have I heard all of this before? Oh right, MTG. I'll pass on this populist drivel, thank you. And for fucks sake can we all just let MLK rest in his fucking grave instead of trotting him out for every unrelated argument online?
Funny how folks like the person you responded to think they are the most enlightened individuals and that everyone else just doesn't get it. They act like thinking for themselves is parroting buzzwords they heard on the "news", talk radio, or some private facebook group.
That's what populism is. Rule of the uneducated, driven by nothing but passion. It's a legal mob, ripping through the government with pitchforks and torches. I think horseshoe theory is shit, but this is why it exists. Populists don't rule with law, they rule with anger. That's the one time I'll agree with "both sides", even if I'm likely gonna be on the side that would "win" under a populist left gov. If there is anything the last decade has given me, it's a burning displeasure with populists who refuse to measure their passions with law and the ideals behind it.