• @That_Devil_Girl@lemmy.ml
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    564 months ago

    Run for political office. The Democrats have no intention of fixing anything, let alone making things better.

    And if you believe you’re not qualified or don’t know how to do the job, just remember that both parties are filled with incompetent fools, fakes, conspiracy crackpots, and morons. It would take considerable effort to do worse than some of the people in congress.

    • @Stovetop@lemmy.world
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      334 months ago

      Well, both parties are also filled with money and other resources needed to ensure that only two parties can succeed.

      We need alternative voices in office, but I don’t think that’s happening without some form of revolution. The best one can hope for in lieu of that is co-opting a party’s direction over a span of decades, like the fascists did to the GOP.

      • @Tinidril@midwest.social
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        164 months ago

        If you can’t organize a political movement, you definitely can’t organize a revolution. Also, if history is a guide, the people with wealth tend to end up in power after a revolution.

        • @reksas@sopuli.xyz
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          44 months ago

          I wonder how well thought past revolutions actually were. Did they seriously plan what they will do after they win or did things just move on and suddenly they had to come up what to do now.

          Anyways, people with wealth taking power is definitely something that must be planned against or you might as well not do anything in the first place.

    • @limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      34 months ago

      Politics stopped working at the federal level, and only some states are full democracies.

      So running for local office either won’t help at all, because the fight is not there. Or it’s a dangerous futile thing to do - if one were to be outspoken and all public against injustice.

      The only hope for many is to make new things while breaking as little of the old as possible

    • @Tinidril@midwest.social
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      24 months ago

      Run for office, or find someone worthy and get behind their run. Don’t worry about Republicans for now,vee have to defeat the Democratic establishment before we will have the ability to fight Republicans.