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[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You are whining about a vocal internet minority, that's why they're not doing anything. Just because you see someone complaining about "the man" and calling themselves socialists on lemmy or some other internet forum doesn't mean they're representative of the left in general.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

Nah fam, I vote in every election I'm eligible for. I choose who to vote factoring in which platform is closest to what I want along with the probability of that party actually being in a position to implement it. I phone bank so politicians will owe me and I can influence them to go further in the direction I want.

None of the text you type on this site influences anything a politician will do. Actually participating in the process does. Typing up essays about how liberals are bad because they aren't socialists is just useless whining. If you fail to convince the working class that socialism will make their lives better (and if you did that the politicians would fall in line) then you're accomplishing nothing.