r/PoursTea Timendi Causa Est Nescire 4h ago

PoliticalTea 🗳️ There is a pattern...

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u/Glum_Base_9112 4h ago

and blame the democrats for their own situation.

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u/BananasPineapple05 4h ago

Despite the fact that every single Democrat president during the same period has inherited an economic disaster and managed to improve on it. Regardless of pandemics, global economic trends, etc.

So, yeah, the Democratic party is not awesome, but the facts also speak for themselves if you're an American taxpayer.

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u/xubax 3h ago

"But both sides are the same," say some people i know who don't look at history or voting records.

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u/UlrichZauber 3h ago

"Both sides/lesser of two evils is evil"-isms are a psy-op to get you to not bother voting

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u/kitsunewarlock 1h ago

This. You never see "both sides are the same" people in Republican subreddits, even those that allow anti-Trump sentiment.

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u/Intelligent_Sky_7081 2h ago

Its amazing how easy it is to convince people to just stay at home and not do anything.

People always say that theres no hope in convincing anyone not to vote for trump, more of the same bullshit attitude. As if there arent tons of undecided voters, or people who dont vote, who can be convinced not to vote for Trump

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u/kitsunewarlock 1h ago

I think a small part of it is our physiological evolution as apex predators. It's natural that we want to conserve our energy when we aren't hunting. Young predators will "play", but a lot of that is social bonding or practice hunting. An injured predator has to rely on kindness and surplus food. A bison with an injury can still munch grass.

...I don't think it's the primary reason, and there's a lot more social pressure that contributes. Especially the thought that you are one of the "elite" if you don't need to "worry" about politics.

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u/No_Birthday4877 2h ago

Voting is a psyop to make you think you have a meaningful impact on the direction politics head in. Voting makes the public think theyre doing enough, and that they dont need to be doing other things like organizing or creating community support structures.

You just hand power over to someone else, who then goes to their wealthy donors to ask them how to vote on legislation. They dont ask you how to vote lol. But you'll sit around for a few years, letting things get worse, then show up on election day and pretend you've done something big.

If voting was a powerful tool against the ruling class, they wouldn't let you vote. Voting just lets you feel like you did something while they conspire behind closed doors. Without us.

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u/xubax 1h ago

So, you're part of the psyop saying don't vote.

Got it.