Our Government
Posted by Shy_little_fox@reddit | greentext | View on Reddit | 37 comments
Posted by Shy_little_fox@reddit | greentext | View on Reddit | 37 comments
PulsarTSAI@reddit
I cannot stand reading through long documents designed in a way to deter most people from reading or understanding them. And I have trouble dealing even with my own thoughts and life, so adding politics that I have no power to change onto that just makes everything worse. I just know that this world has been broken since its beginning, and will remain broken until its end.
wordjedi@reddit
for fuck's sake, just pick red team or blue team and hate the other team like a normal fucking person
Nobody told you to think
Ok_Introduction_7829@reddit
My mum thinks the right wing party in my country is left wing and the centrist party is globalist WEF puppet vaccination bullshit and I honestly think it's the biggest shame that I do all the research, I read every parties manifesto, I keep up to date, and still my vote is worth as much as hers
nlzza@reddit
I would suggest writing articles and posts to 'wake ppl up' so to speak. Tis the only thing we can do, alas...
kerodon@reddit
The unfortunate reality is you can't fix everyone. Learn to recognize the people who want confirmation bias and the people who can be reasoned with, and don't waste your energy where it isn't going to accomplish anything.
ruck_my_life@reddit
It's the allegory of the cave man. Most folks are content to see the shadows flicker. Just like you can't make someone go to therapy or study harder or whatever. Almost no one wants to do all that, Anon. Enlightenment is hard as fuck, and it's often fucking blinding.
Still-Theme4314@reddit
We should return back to the old ways of only letting land owners vote. We're already halfway there considering most voters a rich boomers.
CrustyJuggIerz@reddit
Nah, that would make housing an even bigger crisis, and block people from getting into the market.
There is no quick fix, there will likely be a civil war, it seems like thats what trumps trying to set up, that way he can stay in the seat indefinitely. Sitting president at the time of civil war declaration remains until it ends.
GeronimoHero@reddit
Not even close to being true or accurate. We held elections during our last civil war. Since elections are constitutionally granted powers to state governments there’s no federal mechanism to stop an election from happening no matter the circumstances. We had elections during the civil war, WWII, etc. There’s no federal mechanism for stalling or stopping an election, that’s complete fantasy.
CrustyJuggIerz@reddit
I clarified in my next comment
Warm_Tea_4140@reddit
There were still elections during the first one.
Phantom_0999@reddit
Considering that +90% of all bill considerations and proposals of recent date are done based upon lobbyists rather than the people, we're already there. It's just that the rich land owners are just as stupid because humanity is stupid and wealth doesn't necessarily buy you intelligence lol.
MrBingly@reddit
Fuck it. I'm down for that. Maybe then all the bullshit political obsession everyone has can go die in a rented hole.
Opheodrys97@reddit
Ragebait comment
Opposite_Substance29@reddit
More than people being manipulated, it's just that people simply are too lazy to even think for themselves. It's tiring for the general public to even think outside the box.
CrustyJuggIerz@reddit
Are you one of those? You are the general public, yes?
ColumbusJewBlackets@reddit
lol if you think the average person thinks like that you’ve never worked with the general public
CrustyJuggIerz@reddit
I have, I'm just not pessimistic. You judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree of course its going to seem stupid.
Opposite_Substance29@reddit
I like to think I'm not but I probably am. No one is so special they're immune to propaganda anyways.
...or you just wanted to engage in an insult fight?
CrustyJuggIerz@reddit
Nah, I'm with you, it is easy to think like that, but then you gotta remember, if youre thinking like that, most other people probably are.
People are just frustrated. I'm not American, i still find it hard to believe how corrupt the government is, I wouldn't want to live there at the moment. And its not even around politics or the policies, its about how legitimately terrible people are in charge, and how no one higher up has the balls to do something.
Trigger_Fox@reddit
Also most people only tend to move or change things when it personally affects them. That one "they came for the x, i did not speak for i wasn't x" is genuinely true for most people
CerifiedHuman0001@reddit
Honestly the more time that passes the less I think “They came for x” was a warning and more just human nature. It will never not be the case, no matter how educated or connected people are.
Uncle480@reddit
Nah I refuse to think. Just let me take my paycheck, go home, and wring out what little droplets of fulfillment I can from my life and enjoy them before I die.
Nova_Aetas@reddit
In their defense, the media should be doing this work for us in good faith and presenting the research to inform us on what the government is doing. We shouldn’t have to dig through 100 pages of meeting notes.
I know this sounds naive but that’s meant to be the idea.
Cuddlyaxe@reddit
No it's not naive. I don't think people are somehow dumber than they were 60 years ago
Rather the big change is that back then, elites had a shared sense of ethics and responsibility, and other elites pressured them to follow it
Direct-You4432@reddit
I feel like people have to take some responsibility here, and I think this is rather a new thought. We made a system where the media is the fourth pillar of democracy, and we sort of relinquished all our work to them. But that didn't work for the most part. We have to do more by ourselves then, and come up with something new that works. I know people are busy and struggling, but if we need a working society on this large scale, it seems that the average member needs to be more knowledgeable and resilient.
Thewhitelight___@reddit
It's not our government. It's the media. They have a vested interest in making us angry and obsessing over their headlines. It's big business.
revelbytes@reddit
The same people who own the media also lobby politicians to do their bidding
It's ridiculous to say American politicians dont thrive in tribalistic rhetoric these days when that's literally all they do
bettazg28@reddit
bro just now realized this
geoff1036@reddit
Anon had to read 100pgs of government documentation to determine that the government is pitting both sides against each other.
Real intellectual, huh?
Naive_Drive@reddit
4chan likes manipulating politics until the real world becomes like 4chan
EnragedTea43@reddit
Anon should work in politics
myn3meisjo3@reddit
Reading_username@reddit
Big if true.
splashtext@reddit
Hey buddy, we love you
wasted-degrees@reddit
I remember studying poli-sci when I was younger, and that was about the time i disengaged with domestic political discourse because it was becoming detrimental to my health to be that angry all the time.
CrustyJuggIerz@reddit
Yes. People like to argue about trivial shit as a distraction from their own issues. The more someone argues, the more their life is fucked behind the scenes.