• ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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    violence is one of the tools at our disposal, the threat of the upending of the status quo is what did it. that comes from leftists, not politicians or institutionalism.

    the institutions are there to uphold the status quo, regardless of the good people that might be elected. it also explains why the trump admin is dismantling them, he wants to break the status quo for something else.

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        Americans willing to do anything to make it stop

        yes. socialism. they were starting to demand socialism. no wonder new deal policies were heavily inspired by soviet policies.

        the great depression was nothing more than a top-heavy deregulated capitalism crashing. exactly as predicted by marx. neoliberalism has risen to replace traditional capitalism, because us people bought the new deal as a compromise instead of deposing the capitalists.

        bringing us right back to a similar conundrum now.

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            the system itself is corrupt, man. ive personally seen actually good politicians in my country be bullied and persecuted out of congress in my country. or worse. usually worse.

            at best she ends up like bernie sanders, who says things we might agree with sometimes but its otherwise harmless, and fundamentally changes nothing beyond tiny wins.

            im not pessimistic or optimistic. i observe what happens and am saying it out loud.

            its no use to keep trying to do what we have been doing for decades now expecting things to unfold any differently.

            politics is more than just voting.

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                i’m not really saying we have no use for them. just that they will not be effective.

                i vote for all the great people I can, but most of them end up not really accomplishing much. there is a hard limit to what electoralism can do.