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What a great take! (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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From the "great post": https://lemmy.world/post/11141507

Warning: may cause brain damage.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (2 children)

You’re truly ignorant on the matter it seems. You say we should make someone take better stances? That’s just dumb, if you don’t have a progressive candidate nothing you say as a constituent matters. As someone who has written, emailed, met in person their representative I have not once felt I was heard. Letters and emails were responded to with generic responses, in person I either got to ask a question which got a non answer or brushed off completely.

Granted, I live in red state so what I have to say matters less and is more dangerous to be let known publicly. There’s not much a lot of us can do to have our voices heard, short of a revolt. But I’m just going to keep doing what little I can in hopes that maybe we can keep chipping at the corruption. I’m going to keep campaigning and voting for representatives I believe try to actually help everyone, not just their chosen few.

Both Biden and Trump suck, but you better believe I’m voting for the lesser of two evils.

The hell are you even supposed to do with something like this? "Yeah I have mountains of evidence that my participation in the system accomplishes nothing but I'm still going to go through the motions!"

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Obviously all western "democracies" are dogshit, but this sort of thing is really unique to the US.

My point that USAmericans are the most cucked people on the planet stands.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

The hell are you even supposed to do with something like this? “Yeah I have mountains of evidence that my participation in the system accomplishes nothing but I’m still going to go through the motions!”

It's basically prayer. Civil religion in action.