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Politicians will always disappoint you. There will always be things left undone, done poorly, or done in a way you disagree with. Everybody needs to get used to this and learn we vote for the least bad, not the most good.
Why?
Why does everyone have to get used to and just blindly accept that the system is shit and doesn't serve them or make their lives any better?
Why are you so comfortable settling for so little?
Why don't you want better for yourself, and worse, think you get to demand the same of others?
(I don't need your answers, these are all for you and those who agree with you to ask yourselves)
This is an imperfect world.
Democracy is necessarily the function of creating coalitions of compromise between literal millions of people, all with different interests and concerns.
Politicians, as a career, self-select for ambition and ego, and that comes with certain implications in even the best of them.
Jesus fucking Christ, is it really so little to not want to die or see my friends and family horribly oppressed?
Plus getting upset about this shit is fucking exhausting.
then don't
literally, just don't. You don't need to care, nobody is asking you to care. It may seem brash, but sit down and think about it for a bit.
Tons of people are asking me to care. They say that I’m not a good citizen if I don’t pay attention to the news, even if it upsets me.
“If you’re not angry you haven’t been paying attention.”
ask them why they care if you care.
Ask yourself why you care if they care.
unless the problem is directly related to you, there is simply very little that can immediately be done about the problem, and if there is very little that can be done about it, do the minimal amount of effort needed to accomplish something and move on, or simply don't worry about it.
Not everybody in society has to care about the same problems. Find something that you can make a difference in, and make a difference in that thing. You'll be doing your part for society.
Be mad about things that you can be productive on, not things that you can't be, otherwise you can't be productive.
well i mean it depends on what you mean by this, you will inevitably die, so, idk how you plan on getting around that one. Oppression is an incredibly broad and complex topic, or the simplest of them with no indirect explanation. The answer is the same though, do shit to change public sentiment.
Look, I will tick the Kamala box. I do indeed believe that Trump is a bad candidate and will oppress many people. But I don't want people to feel like this shit is normal. Back in the late 1970's to the 1990's, nobody would have thought that both parties would end up supporting the same genocide, with one being a little less pumped. Or maybe even the 2000's, when the War on Terror was thought to be conducted humanely. We have lived in an imperfect world before, along with millions of people, and politicians self-selecting for ambition and ego, and there was nobody calling to wipe an ethnicity off the face of the Earth. I'm not surprised at the Dem party, I'm surprised that there are fascists in the White House and I'm supposed to just accept it as a normal part of democracy. Well, I won't! Both parties in the United States supporting a genocide requires voting to solve, but it's purely abnormal! I'm not wanting a world any better than a world we used to have, one where the United States did not conduct ethnic cleansing!
We live in a nation with the Internet, fast food wherever you go, products that arrive at your door when ordered, touchscreens, full 3D videogames, V-Tubers, the Moon Landing, nuclear reactors, and the White House lighting up in rainbow colors to support LGBT+ rights--yet when asked to stop a genocide, it's suddenly too much to ask. I would give up so much of these fleeting pleasures to protect human lives. Should I just become a lotus-eater, and neglect the outside world to "act humane"?
Man, I can absolutely cite examples of both parties supporting genocides in that time period.
I... would count myself as an American patriot, but I'm pretty sure the US not committing ethnic cleansing is an extremely recent phenomenon.
Man, if you want to pour all your time and energy into this cause, unironically, go for it. But part of understanding just how vast and fucked the world is also requires one to accept and understand that we can't fight every battle simultaneously. Hell, most battles aren't even our's to fight. And no amount of martyrdom from an individual can change either of those things. I've been calling the Israeli genocide for what it is for years now. I'm not exactly sitting here telling you to shut up about it. But we have to be realistic both about what we can achieve and about what we will sacrifice to achieve it.
You could sacrifice every waking moment of your life, every meal above the level of gruel, every social connection and personal property unrelated to the cause, all for the sake of a .0001% contribution to ending another country's genocide, but the onus shouldn't be on you to kill yourself to correct every sin in the world. At some point, it's not on you or me as individuals.
In what world will a politician never disappoint you?
I'm generally in full control of myself and even I disappoint myself - fringe third party candidates are not the political messiah some people think they are.
I don't understand how this is the argument against third party. Why does the candidate need to be the Messiah to be better than Kamala?
even if it goes perfectly, you'll be left wanting more.
Cuz it's democracy. If you wanted someone to be in office who would get everything done with no obstacles no roadblocks and no delays then you wouldn't be looking at democracy you'd want a dictator. You can want that if you want but just be honest about it.
Amen
Because people in office are individuals and morality is relatively subjective. The only politician who will do everything you want and believe everything you believe is yourself. Run for office.
Right, as if the system isn't very deliberately designed to withstand reform and will not hesitate to weaponize every tool it has at its disposal (from the courts to the media to the police and the other alphabet agencies) to assure no leftist ever actually makes it in to a position of real power (not that we would want to, since we believe the state should be abolished, not joined, for precisely the reason stated above).
For the however many'th time, you die hard liberals can tell yourselves as many fairy tales you want to make yourself feel better, it won't change the reality - the system is not designed to serve you, but to keep you placated with nothing but an illusion of choice. Those with power and money wrote the rules, what on earth, and at this point in time with history unfolding right in front of our eyes as it is, again, makes you think that following those rules will ever work in your favour?
First, I'm not a liberal by any definition. A democratic socialist isn't a liberal and if you think so, you're uneducated or just ad hominem attacking. Either way, null.
There are options, it's just difficult to implement them. The Black Panthers were doing it. The first step is having community as its base.
I live in a place with a lot of "undesirable" folks. I don't want to see my community here get hurt because I didn't do anything. And ofc I don't want to be hurt either.
Voting does grant power. If it did nothing, then they'd allow felons to vote. They wouldn't engage in voter suppression. If leftist organizing didn't work, they wouldn't have imprisoned people like The Black Panthers. We actually know it indeed does and will work BECAUSE the state responds violently. Even in Russia, where the votes don't matter, someone like Navalny is a threat.
Don't be a coward. Vote. You can still organize for other stuff too while voting.
The only politician who won't disappoint you on every issue is yourself. Run for office. No joke. Use your rights. Vote. Speak. Run for office.
Not using those rights is functionally the same as not having them.
I doubt that. My dad got elected to a town council and was pretty disappointed about what the system let him accomplish.
Can you explain more?
One really good example is the stroad that's preventing good bike infrastructure. The roads that are managed by the township have bike lanes - even if they're not separated - but the stroad is a state route, so we have no bike lanes on the main connection between these lanes, and limited pedestrian infrastructure.
This is why we have kids getting bussed to the school that's across the road from their house.
So how is that situation an argument against people running for office? Like jobs are meant to be challenging and work, it's not like being elected then grants you a magic wand to seamlessly solve issues.
Because it sounds even more frustrating than just voting for someone.
It's not about frustrating or trolling people though. It's about seizing power granted to you by law
Yes, and that amount of power is frustratingly small, even if you're an elected official.
If I listened to you I'd be out painting guerilla bike lanes on that stroad. That would be exercising power in an non-frustrating way.