Or peaceful protests with arts and crafts.
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Oh ho ho you just wait till midterms! That's only two years. It's not like it's taken them two months to make half of Project 2025 a reality.
Good thing I don't live in the US
Me neither but it's not a good thing no matter where you live. The world is very small these days.
I'm starting to believe that the saying "All roads lead to Rome" might've been a warning.
"I can change them."
Oh, come on. About 90 million people listened to everyone and their (non-conservative) mother say how this might be the most important election, Trump won't give up his power, they're going to enact Project 2025, it'll be nothing but a revenge tour, they're fascists, a second Trump administration is an existential threat to this country, Trump is compromised, this administration will end American democracy, the people who stood in his way last time aren't around any more, etc... 90 million people heard this... then still chose to stay home and let this happen. I'm sorry Biden/Harris didn't sweep us off our feet, but we deserve this. Don't you dare say we "tried" voting against it.
If Did Not Vote had been a candidate:
Sheldon S. Wolin talked about the fact that the US system was a "managed democracy" and a form of "inverted totalitarianism" in his book Democracy Inc about twenty years ago. In a managed democracy the pretense of democratic voting is maintained, but the system is so heavily managed as to render voting ineffective and largely irrelevant. The US voting system is so heavily gamed that to expect the average US citizen to have any power through the ballot box is laughable.
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About 90 million people listened to everyone and their (non-conservative) mother say how this might be the most important election
We get told this every election, but then democrats cooperate with republicans every step of the way. Most recently, democrats had an opportunity to force a government shutdown and use that as leverage against the republicans, but instead they instantly folded like they always do. I recognized this pattern when Obama promised hope and change but then mostly continued Bush's policies when he got elected (e.g. corporate bail-outs, deportations, and warmongering). Democrats follow republicans as they journey further and further to the right.
The voting in the US is literally predetermined during redistricting and as real as the outcome of Wrestlemania so not sure what you're talking about
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So you think it's right to blame people who did what they could? Just because others voted against them? Prick.
Wow, personal insults, classy. And "people who did what they could"...? Are we reading the same words?? I'm calling out my fellow Americans who decided not to do all they could. Those who literally didn't do the absolute minimum to prevent all of this: gestures broadly at the everything by voting. And I'm not acting above it or anything. Maybe I should have done more outreach? Apparently we didn't hammer home the dire consequences clearly enough...?
Still, what in my rant makes you think I'm targeting anyone who made any effort at all?? I'm saying to people who did nothing: they and we need to do better. We literally won't have a country anymore otherwise...
Wow, personal insults, classy
Mate you personally insulted every American. I'm an American. Don't get mad at tit for tat.
You said we all deserve this. You didn't just say it to those who do nothing.
There's no insults here. Obviously. Like it or not, we as a country are in this together, so we have to do better. Until then, we deserve this until we can get off our asses.
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