Yep, people need to be told over and over that elections aren’t an opportunity to get a best friend, or a perfect candidate, or to get everything you want the nation to be - it’s a chance to repute the bad actors that are up for election, it’s a chance to get closer to your goals, to improve enough to clear brush so you can see where your desired path can lead. There has never been a perfect candidate. There has never been progress that hasn’t been reversed somewhat or somewhat imperfectly implemented. Do what you can, don’t let “perfect” be the enemy of doing good.
Better definitely won’t look like we were promised or like we thought. It might not ever get better, that’s always a possibility, but there’s a chance it will - and the only chance we have to make that real is to act like its a possibility. If we act defeatist, we guarantee that outcome.
I’m cool if we return back to homing pigeons. The only mail you get is from your own pigeons, and only when you send them out to someone you want to hear from.
Which is everything wrong with “representive” democracies, that they don’t actually represent voters wishes. Being unable to vote on what matters to you means we are left with imperfect choices.
Local elections do a lot of that. Citizens United pretty much guaranteed we won’t ever get that on the federal level any more to any appreciable degree, without a massive referendum against both major parties. Problem is those referendums usually end in more fascists with control. That’s how power vacuums work. Always have. Fascists know that, too, it’s why they appeal to the masses and especially the downtrodden and working class, and ask them to pick up pitch forks and torches and overturn the system - so they can then use the power vacuum to assert control with force, armed force, by putting down the revolution they started.
Fascists have mostly used the political system to gain power. Hitler took power legally, as did Mussolini. Franco is the only one who took power during a collapse of government and civil war.
Can you point to specific examples of referendums leading to fascists having more power? Seems a very bold claim to be making.
Yes, power vacuums exist within political systems as well, and fascists absolutely have just worked within systems that function as intended with the help of capital capture thanks to corporatists loving the policies and strong armed nature of fascists.
Yep, people need to be told over and over that elections aren’t an opportunity to get a best friend, or a perfect candidate, or to get everything you want the nation to be - it’s a chance to repute the bad actors that are up for election, it’s a chance to get closer to your goals, to improve enough to clear brush so you can see where your desired path can lead. There has never been a perfect candidate. There has never been progress that hasn’t been reversed somewhat or somewhat imperfectly implemented. Do what you can, don’t let “perfect” be the enemy of doing good.
I don’t even think things will get better. At this point I just want to be left alone.
Instead my mailbox is full of even more garbage and texting is basically unusable.
I’d be happy if they just stopped getting worse.
Best we can vote for is slightly worse instead of even more worse.
Better definitely won’t look like we were promised or like we thought. It might not ever get better, that’s always a possibility, but there’s a chance it will - and the only chance we have to make that real is to act like its a possibility. If we act defeatist, we guarantee that outcome.
I’m cool if we return back to homing pigeons. The only mail you get is from your own pigeons, and only when you send them out to someone you want to hear from.
I know.
Streaming was supposed to be better than cable but it’s not.
Cable was supposed to be better but it wasn’t.
All of human history is solving problems only to create worse problems.
Which is why I want nothing to do with any of you.
You are on a social media site to say you want nothing to do with people. Kind of odd.
If y’all are gonna bother me I’m gonna bother you.
Plus the fediverse is the least social social media I’ve found
You came here. No one here could bother you if you didn’t voluntarily take and continue to take steps to be here.
Plenty of people bother me all day no matter what I do.
I fully support anyone who rejects this bullshit.
Which is everything wrong with “representive” democracies, that they don’t actually represent voters wishes. Being unable to vote on what matters to you means we are left with imperfect choices.
Local elections do a lot of that. Citizens United pretty much guaranteed we won’t ever get that on the federal level any more to any appreciable degree, without a massive referendum against both major parties. Problem is those referendums usually end in more fascists with control. That’s how power vacuums work. Always have. Fascists know that, too, it’s why they appeal to the masses and especially the downtrodden and working class, and ask them to pick up pitch forks and torches and overturn the system - so they can then use the power vacuum to assert control with force, armed force, by putting down the revolution they started.
Fascists have mostly used the political system to gain power. Hitler took power legally, as did Mussolini. Franco is the only one who took power during a collapse of government and civil war.
Can you point to specific examples of referendums leading to fascists having more power? Seems a very bold claim to be making.
Yes, power vacuums exist within political systems as well, and fascists absolutely have just worked within systems that function as intended with the help of capital capture thanks to corporatists loving the policies and strong armed nature of fascists.