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I think what you really need is a civil war to get anything changed. Historically this is how it tends to work.
stfu
no u
Yeah you got me, I'm a Russian shill bot. Let me know how voting for the lesser of two evil keeps helping your country improve.
You might have been taught in school that democracy is some ideal or maybe living in a market economy has made you think voting should be like picking out a product on amazon and having it delivered to you the next day.
But the reality is that democracy is a grind. You aren't going to get everything you want by voting in one election. You get a small amount of progress towards the things you want in each successive election. Are you willing to vote in every election available to you for as many decades as it takes to achieve what you want?
If you're not willing to do this, it shows you're not really dedicated to any of the causes you espouse.
You say that as though things are slowly getting better, when the opposite is happening. Your two party system is proving to be a failure.
What I also see happening is America drawing closer to civil war each year. You can prolong the inevitable, but it is coming and it will happen... the only question at this point is when?
PS: Love the name. It happens to be my Minecraft name. Huge Cowboy Bebop fan.
By not electing the 10000x worse evil.
You are so hyper focused on Trump you are missing the point.
From an outsiders perspective, it's irrelevant who you pick, you need a change voting is incapable of creating.
tell you what: when russia's overthrown putin, we can talk about civil war here. until then, fuck off.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-indictments-election-january-6-classified-documents-5cb04868bb1cdf91c19eafdb882af8c0
enjoy the downvotes. lemmy is apparently full of limp-wristed pacifists. oh well. let them learn the hard way what happens when you are too chicken shit to stand up for what's right.
I'm guessing you've never been in a civil war or looked up anything beyond the big battles they make you learn in high school?
The fact that we got out of the American Civil War without several follow on wars, dictators, and remote parts of the country deciding to leave by just ignoring the federal government is a fucking miracle first of all. But they've always been fought dirty. Right up there under religious wars. It's not the Army you need to worry about, it's your neighbor. The kid you grew up with who'll give your name to the militia to keep suspicion off of them. It's mobs armed with voter rolls burning anyone who registered with the other party too recently. It's bombs in schools and malls. It's people being arrested in the middle of the night and executed solely because each faction is afraid another faction managed to do something they didn't see. (And there are always multiple factions in modern civil wars.) It's the body of the only teacher who gave a damn turning up carved with the initials of a faction. Done of course by a different faction just to stir up animosity.
It's not about being a coward. It's about fighting in way that doesn't turn into a fucking horror show.