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The last several federal elections have seen the highest turnout in US history.
The problem is not turnout, it's information. Exit polling has shown over and over that the median voter, the bulk of our voting base, have no idea what's going on because they don't know who or what is real. We had Obama voters voting for Trump. We had Bernie bros voting for Trump. When asked, these people shrugged and broadly felt it didn't matter. This is by design, the powers behind the power want YOU to tune out and think that voting is useless.
The DNC is a container, the contents have spoiled, we can pour the contents out and replace them. This is the best bet to turn things around, and anyone who doesn't see that obviously has no actual idea of the scale and scope of the nation's electoral system.
oh fuck no. They choose to believe what they want to hear. That's what the digital era has done, you can get news all day long that tells you what you want to hear, and "news sources" like Fox poll viewers on what they want to hear, not actual news.
I am pretty cynical, but not so cynical that I blame all the problems on people who are just trying to get through a life that requires working 6 - 7 days a week just to eat and haven't had the exposure to varied viewpoints and have had the curiosity beaten out of them.
No, that direction lay hate. And that's what a certain set of people WANT. There are very wealthy people who benefit from all of us blaming each other for falling for very human, natural ploys.
YOU ARE NOT BETTER. YOU ARE NOT IMMUNE TO MISINFORMATION OR PROPAGANDA. I don't care what you say, you're just like any of us. Any of us are susceptible to the system you describe that atomizes our perspectives. I don't blame people for falling into it because it's bigger than any single one of us, it's huge and has reach everywhere.
The direction for our hate and ire and desire for vindication needs to be leveled at the grifters, the influencers and the oligarchs who win as long as we're not united and sympathetic to each other. We need to attack the systems that are harming people, not the people being harmed by them.