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Really tired of "both sides bad." Political change should not be moving fast and breaking things.
Right now we have a hole to dig out from. We need to get to the point where we can vote for the people we really want.
By not voting you say that everything is fine and you are okay with the status quo.
Vote for the change we need right now. Do not let our future slip away.
The only reason you wouldn't want to break things right now means you still think there is good in the system. The system is working as intended and absolutely needs to be broken so something better can be made.
Alternatively, there can be the simple recognition that breaking the system that exists will result in a mass casualty event as current systems keeping the masses alive break down, and the resulting collapse will be capitalized on (lol) by your local warlord.
I'm sure the local warlord will be a great bastion of anti authoritarian praxis.
There are already thousands and more dying by the second with the current system. There is already a mass causality event and it will continue to get worse as the current system makes the world less and less inhabitable.
And we don't have to have a "local warlord" the idea that people can put something better in place then fascism is ironically a right wing talking point. Though I blame the propaganda that has caused us to view our fellow as a enemy instead a comrade. But that's a whole other point.
Correct on all counts.
And yet, the reality is that the collapse of society will lead to even more casualties. The other reality is that I don't know of a single collapsed society that became altruistic, and did not devolve into local warlord killing each other.
It should absolutely 100% be that when the alternative is genocide and fascism.
Im writing in lenin or john cena or dennis rodman. Theres nothing you can do to stop me
LOL
"We need to vote for change and to dig ourselves out from this hole!"
-Proceeds to vote for Democrats, who change nothing, and dig the hole deeper.
"Oh well, my memory will have reset long before the next election comes around, so we can do it all again!"
This is the most political-history ignorant comment I've read in a very long time.
How do you think people have rights?
Yeah like how do you vote for voting rights before you even get them? 🔨
History started with the first election of the USA.
You people have actual short term memory loss
-Hunter S Thompson, 56 years ago
Frederick Engels 135 years ago
That shithole's banana republic politics is the longest running gag in history.
Precisely. We are not in a place where it is possible to make a different choice. Other countries seem to not understand it - do you know how massive our country is? How inconsistent our education is? How divided we are? We are not, under any circumstance, uniting half of the country in voting 3rd party, especially not now when tensions are so high. We have to get past the point where being picky dooms us to the greater of two evils. Should it work this way? Of course not. Should we try to change this stupid two party bullshit? Absolutely...but not right now. Right now, there is too much at stake.
With such mentality, pro status quo, change won't ever happen.
Its sad that people are so ignorant they don't realize that the controlled opposition wing of the US empire has done this for every election, and people are still falling for it. Liberals have the memory of a goldfish, and are naive enough to think the US is a democracy.
This would be more persuasive if you didn't say it every election for decades.
Every election is “the most important election in history and in our lifetime”