• YappyMonotheist@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    If you think, after all of this time, that the Democrats are opposed to anything in earnest instead of just having to pretend to be shocked but incapable while their pockets are full, then idk what to tell you.

    Also, let’s be real for a second: if voting had any effect on power or the direction of the nation, truly, then you wouldn’t be allowed to vote. Regardless of which puppet you pick, they’re paid by either the same or competing financial interests, and none of them care about you or doing the right thing. They’re just there for the bag, like every person before them was besides perhaps a couple of exceptions in the entirety of American history. No, power is in the hands of capital, and the amoral whores you call your representatives follow their whims and then turn around and play their roles to trick you and you keep falling for it, generation after generation, because you don’t have any convictions or beliefs in earnest to stand against nonsense and spin, your brains are atrophied and your education system turned you into adults who know the Pledge of Allegiance (lol) but can only read at a 6th grade level (and at an American 6th grade level at that).

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      “Voting doesn’t matter” is the stupidest myth I continue to encounter. Voting matters A LOT, which is why certain political parties try to restrict it as heavily as they can.

      Every election cycle, monied interests spend billions and billions of dollars on ads alone to influence as many voters as possible for a reason. They know the power of a vote, and spend their vast resources accordingly. Pretending voting doesn’t matter makes you a useful idiot at best.

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        14 hours ago

        You’re right. Run a progressive in a democrat primary and all of the sudden Dems care very much about winning and will spend millions to bury you and ensure the establishment candidate wins.

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        15 hours ago

        It doesn’t because regardless of which candidate you vote in, American imperialism keeps on moving, reality has shown us this. Obama had record breaking drone strikes, Biden had record breaking deportations, every politician in power is nothing but a scapegoat, paid handsomely and even promised wonderfully paid positions in the companies they support, by the people they actually work for. And if you think Trump is the reason for the collapse and restructuring of the American empire, then you don’t understand geopolitics. It’s just easier to get the spin to work if the people feel like they’re being listened to, that democracy works, so it’s better to fudge those numbers and gerrymander (which is legal) to make things smooth, but things move in the same direction regardless, just with different degrees of friction.

        This is what’s gonna happen: either Trump remains in power because Americans think protests and SNL skits are working strategies against the abuse of the capitalist class/the Republicans and things move smoothly, or the Democrats do some sort of coup or are supported by the same institutions and financial groups of interest that supported Trump into power, that rescues the nation from Trump whilst largely continuing the same policies, in and outside the country, whilst the population feels like they finally defeated that one monster behind everything (lol). This all depends on analytics, on think tank papers, one way or another power will continue moving and by now, with white supremacy on one hand and Democrat anger on the other, this has never been easier. And we’ll do it all over again in some years time!