Please note this does not mean the USSR wasn’t that way. Just want to clarify I’m not a tankie, lol.

  • Instigate@aussie.zone
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    24 days ago

    There are examples where US populations have banded together and voted in people who genuinely care about their interests (Bernie Sanders; AOC; et al). If US peoples of varying electorates actually organised and spoke with one another to endorse and vote in more of these people, change might actually occur.

    The issue is threefold: the US population would rather not vote than seek out a third candidate who actually cares about them; the US does not have mandatory voting; and the concept of community has broken down and been sold to individualism so broadly that many in the US would rather vote in a candidate who harms them as long as they harm others than someone who would help them but also help others.

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      29 minutes ago

      the US population would rather not vote than seek out a third candidate who actually cares about them

      The real problem is far more insidious; our first past the post voting, combined with dark money in politics, effectively makes anything more than two choices completely unrealistic. And blaming the apathy of the slave class for the machinations of the pedophile class doesn’t change anything…