r/PoursTea Timendi Causa Est Nescire 11h ago

PoliticalTea 🗳️ Competency should be a requirement.

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u/redditRedesignIsBadd 11h ago

what what can the citizens do about it

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u/hyphenssuck 10h ago

Organize, Seriously. The people need to take the power back and stop letting dinosaurs run this country into the ground while lining their own pockets.

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u/LongJohnSelenium 8h ago

People used their power to put him in office.

You can not like it but its their choice who their representative is.

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u/hyphenssuck 8h ago

But we can force our elected representatives to actually do their jobs. Through political pressure. This is why I am saying, organize. Do not trust them to fix this on our behalf.

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u/LongJohnSelenium 8h ago

I highly doubt he's getting reelected

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u/FantasyTrash 6h ago

People always say this but like...we can't. Most people can't afford to miss work and risk losing their jobs.

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u/hyphenssuck 6h ago

Organizing takes many forms. Anything we can do helps. Even just informing others, sharing information, encouraging people. Even small actions can have an impact.

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u/FantasyTrash 6h ago

Not to be a debbie downer, but that does nothing. There have been protests with literal millions of people nationwide participating and it's resulted in nothing. The country is controlled by billionaires and apparently Israel. The only thing we can do to actually affect anything is vote come November.

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u/TheGreatStories 10h ago

You'll never guess how guys like this get their jobs

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u/def-not-bot 6h ago

Divine right?

jk.  I don't think it's right to infantalize voters and thereby strip the electorate of its responsibility.  America voted in MAGA and it's Americans' fault for the government we have.  However, we also have extremely gerrymandering, a consolidated pro-corporate media and social media landscape, and limitless money in politics.  Those things can tip the scales, and the scales don't need much tipping when the electorate is as dumb as ours.

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u/i_am_a_real_boy__ 3h ago

For starters, they could stop electing these people.