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You Got It Kiddo (thelemmy.club)
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[-] Tiresia@slrpnk.net 5 points 18 hours ago

Was the step not taken, or did it not have the result you want? So many educated informed people vote right wing because they prefer to participate in exploitation over giving up meat and destination holidays. They say it "is in their personal interest" to burn every commons and leave nothing for their children.

And that's not to mention the past 45 years of "left-wing" parties adopting more and more right-wing policies so that even when left wing parties are elected the result is more exploitation.

Something is structurally wrong about a political system that produced an extinction event within centuries of its inception. Expecting voting to fix democratic capitalism is as ridiculous as expecting workers' councils to fix vanguard communism.

"Maybe this time it'll work", you say, spreading leaflets for a party that supports genocide, massacring climate migrants, and making the planet uninhabitable in 200 years out of "harm reduction".

[-] NightFantom@slrpnk.net 3 points 10 hours ago

I've never talked to a republican and got the idea they were educated and informed. Not American so ymmv ofc. Local rightwing voters here are just racists, so afraid that the brown man is going to steal their cookie, you know the meme. Neither educated nor informed either as far as I've talked to them.

[-] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 2 points 16 hours ago

Expecting voting to fix democratic capitalism is as ridiculous as expecting workers’ councils to fix vanguard communism.

Quite possibly, but AFAIK it's the main lever, along with voting with one's money. I'm certainly not proposing that democratic capitalism works in the long run, and yet there's no question that with a more educated base that truly wanted to maintain democracy, various nations could have done a better job staving off late-stage capitalistic collapse.

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