• crusa187@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    I think it’s a bit unfair to say they’re voting in corruption knowingly.

    People in America are desperate for change. For over 50 years productivity has continued to rise while material living conditions have stagnated or gotten worse. Us Americans can be pretty dumb sometimes, but even we can recognize those facts. The media and Washington’s insistence on gaslighting us that things have never been better really doesn’t help matters.

    Trump is rightly recognized as a political outsider, although he’s a fake populist and will never deliver meaningfully on what he promises. The true travesty is that the entire establishment is dead set on ensuring no leftist outsider ever makes it to the ballot. If there’s one thing everyone in power can agree upon, it’s that left wing policies that would tend to the basic needs of the people are the true enemy.

    And so, what are we the people to do?

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      8 months ago

      Campaign for local progressives, build up your influence from the ground up.

      Right now, you are a fringe vote that the DNC does not take seriously because you don’t have enough representatives to control more of the party.

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        Except polling data clearly shows that the progressive policies are massively popular with the American people, so to call progressives fringe is inaccurate. The issue at hand is not that progressives are a fringe group, it’s that progressive policies are considered a threat to the privileged owner class and so the left is demonized at every opportunity by the media outlets owned by those same elites.

        This isn’t to say your suggestions are wrong - I do what I can within the confines of the 2 party system. But my point is the system is broken. I’m more focused on getting money (legalized bribes) out of politics, and getting rid of First Past the Post in favor of ranked choice voting. Just these two things would massively change the American political landscape, and quality of representation, for the better.

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          8 months ago

          Yes, but the change Trump is offering is the next level of oppression. Desperate for water these people drink sand.

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            Yes, agreed. Still, we will need to understand their motivations to lead them back to water

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              8 months ago

              Their motivation is they are ready to drink Valium, chloral hydrate, cyanide, and Phenergan for trump.

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      8 months ago

      Trump is also a fake political outsider. He’s known and schmoozed with every single American president since Nixon. Toyed with presidential runs a number of times. And that’s just barely scratching the surface.

      Name a group representative of the wealthy and powerful. And Trump has tried to be a part of it. But also roundly rejected by it. Because no matter how evil the group generally is, they are still smart enough to want nothing to do with him.

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        8 months ago

        True, he’s so desperate to be accepted by the elite. But too dumb to ever truly make it. Quite the useful idiot, however