Man, check revolutions throughout history. They don’t happen because authoritarian governments get too authoritarian. They happen when authoritarian governments let up the pressure during times of tension.
Authoritarian governments that collapse due to over-authoritarianism typically fall to coups, not revolutions.
I’m leaning towards voting 3rd party. For who I want to win. If there even is anyone. Neither of the duopoly parties are winning or earning my vote at this point. And not even because of the subject of this article, but like I get it. And even if I do vote 3rd party, or for the lesser evil walking corpse, my state will still vote for trump. Again. It doesn’t even matter. What even is this system. How do we effect change then? By just not voting for trump and sitting on our hands except posting on lemmy? Rhetorical, but man I don’t get it anymore.
The real answer is to vote local, get involved, if there are no good options run or find a decent person who is capable of running. Either way, support the campaigns of those decent options, do a little volunteering. Change happens from the ground up. Changing the whole system at once is impossible, slowly spreading change from the local level shows other disenfranchised voters there is a chance, and it picks up momentum from there.
Throwing away your vote is a sure fire way to make things worse. Vote for the candidate that has the highest odds of winning who will make things better, or at least not worse. Just because you don’t like the candidate on the “left” doesn’t mean they’re not the one that will objectively do the least harm in office. Letting Trump or anyone else on the right in office is objectively bad on so many measures.
Voting third party is morally reprehensible. Even if it makes you feel better, it’s worst for all of us. Don’t be selfish.
I agree it isn’t. I just hope for better than where we’re at and where it’s looking like we’re going. Just for positive change. I don’t see it with the two main candidates and it doesn’t sit well. In the end I do hate trump more. So who knows. But damn shit’s bleak.
Edit: and really I’m in a red state, we’re not voting Biden. Y’all know how this electoral college works right? My last vote for the dems didn’t matter either.
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fuck this. This is literally what people said during Trump’s first election. Guess what? Making things worse doesn’t magically make things better.
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Man, check revolutions throughout history. They don’t happen because authoritarian governments get too authoritarian. They happen when authoritarian governments let up the pressure during times of tension.
Authoritarian governments that collapse due to over-authoritarianism typically fall to coups, not revolutions.
I’m leaning towards voting 3rd party. For who I want to win. If there even is anyone. Neither of the duopoly parties are winning or earning my vote at this point. And not even because of the subject of this article, but like I get it. And even if I do vote 3rd party, or for the lesser evil walking corpse, my state will still vote for trump. Again. It doesn’t even matter. What even is this system. How do we effect change then? By just not voting for trump and sitting on our hands except posting on lemmy? Rhetorical, but man I don’t get it anymore.
The real answer is to vote local, get involved, if there are no good options run or find a decent person who is capable of running. Either way, support the campaigns of those decent options, do a little volunteering. Change happens from the ground up. Changing the whole system at once is impossible, slowly spreading change from the local level shows other disenfranchised voters there is a chance, and it picks up momentum from there.
Throwing away your vote is a sure fire way to make things worse. Vote for the candidate that has the highest odds of winning who will make things better, or at least not worse. Just because you don’t like the candidate on the “left” doesn’t mean they’re not the one that will objectively do the least harm in office. Letting Trump or anyone else on the right in office is objectively bad on so many measures.
Voting third party is morally reprehensible. Even if it makes you feel better, it’s worst for all of us. Don’t be selfish.
The US isn’t even close to being bad enough for a revolution to happen.
I agree it isn’t. I just hope for better than where we’re at and where it’s looking like we’re going. Just for positive change. I don’t see it with the two main candidates and it doesn’t sit well. In the end I do hate trump more. So who knows. But damn shit’s bleak.
Edit: and really I’m in a red state, we’re not voting Biden. Y’all know how this electoral college works right? My last vote for the dems didn’t matter either.
You probably want to read up on Social Fascists and why the concept you’re espousing is terrible.
History says enabling fascists doesn’t end up with a glorious revolution, but rather a bullet in the head of the left.
Until first past the post is done away with your 3rd candidate vote is an awful idea.
My state voted for trump anyway, it’s all pretty disheartening
Voting 3rd party only increases the chance that they’ll do it again