The Democratic Party Exists To Make Sure Good People Do Nothing
caitlinjohnstone.com.au
The empire has weaponized the insight that the only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing, so spreading awareness of the reality that the Democrats are not good peopl…
  • demesisx@infosec.pubOP
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    3 months ago

    I don’t think this article is recommending that (or any specific path in this context). I think she’s just trying to wake people up. I know that was my reason for posting it. My point was: It’s crystal clear that good people are asleep at the wheel because they’ve fallen victim to marketing which guides people toward complacency; This complacency amounts to tacit approval of one of the two sides (both of which are actually anti-democratic cadres of corporatist warmongers).

    The quote that I made sure to share says it most eloquently.

    • atrielienz@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      No. It isn’t. The amount of time that most “good people” have to advocate for themselves and others is so little that they can’t be politically informed and therefore politically responsible and the system is designed that way. Putting the blame on the voters for voting Democrat when they are presented with poor choices from the start is a problem with the system as well. This is the same as blaming other poor people because you’re poor.

      Voting for a third party candidate doesn’t normalize them or get them elected. It isn’t the marketing that’s the problem. It’s the time. It’s the fact that they have to worry about feeding and clothing and housing themselves and using their free time (what little of it there is) to do things that keep them sane. Politicians and businesses take advantage of that in order to stay in power and further corrupt the system to their own ends.

      It’s exhausting to be blamed for voting in a way that is just damage control and has been our entire lives. If you want to support and advertise lobbies that are fighting to change this, I am all for it. But this sentiment and the article are kind of just off the mark. Most people don’t trust their government. Most people don’t trust politicians. Most people are trying to get by.

      • demesisx@infosec.pubOP
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        3 months ago

        Yes. It is.

        I’m putting blame on people for being easily duped. This is a sham democracy and the sooner we can get out of this endless loop held captive by a FPTP two party system and stop pretending that voting Dem is “harm reduction” the better off HUMANITY will be.

        Every four years, we play this stupid game where people pretend that it’s going to get any better if we choose A over B when A is a Dem police state and B is a Republican police state. The choices were artificially limited from the start so of course, we end up infighting because 70% of us (many of them parents like myself, terrified of the very real dystopian death cult future in store for their children) are utterly voiceless, being dragged kicking and screaming into fascism.

        this is why we have no nuance in US politics