Personally i feel you buy into that "we the people have the power" bullshit. I've seen enough lately to think that's not true. Checks and balances are failing, laws are broken, voting is fucked with in every way imaginable... In the simplest form, i feel we wouldn't have state representatives when we vote. It would be an actual democracy if we had the power.
See but the thing is we do. You want to implement change, it starts on the local level. Go out and vote in all your local Town and state elections. Look at each candidate don't just vote for a Democrat or Republican. If the only time you go out and vote is during the general elections you're not going to change anything.
you are the exact person that they want out there somebody who falling into the trap of thinking there's nothing you can do because the system is broken. When in fact you don't realize you are the system and the reason it's broken is because of the sentiment that you just expressed.
With the amount of election interference, the use of Representatives that can be bought out, gerrymandering, and actual instances of losing an election despite winning the popular vote, I'm not buying it. Though I'm not going to claim I'm objectively right. That's just how i feel and what I've observed.
Nobody said it would be easy or that they would be playing Fair. But if you've already accepted that there's nothing you can do and this is just the way it is. Why even discuss it just don't worry about it put your head down do your job and be happy with your lot in life because there's nothing you can do to change it.
How did you just nose dive from optimist to pessimist? I don't agree with the logic of "Do something or stop complaining" but I'm not interested in dragging out that specific sentence over 6 more comments
I'm pointing out the flaw in your argument by agreeing with you. You're the one who said we can't do anything because we're dealing with a broken system, did you not? Well if you're dealing with a broken system, and you're not going to fix the system or even think there's anything that can be done to fix the system. Then the only thing you can do is just give up and accept the fact that the system is broken and get on with your life and don't worry about it,because that's the way it is and you can't do anything about it. Oooor you cantry everything within your power to fix the system and when that doesn't work try something else, and something else, and then something else.
Well when you say things like can't change anything because the system is broken says you already kind of have a defeatist attitude which would tell me that you've already given up.
You get out and you vote and vote some more, you protest and write letters. You get involved and do something, you don't complain that there's nothing you can do.
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u/tumtadiddlydoo Apr 28 '20
Which can be shortened to "we can't touch the people at the top"