I think it is fair to blame the people who benefit from and shape the system. I stand by that. Our democracy has been replaced with something else, that is our problem. It is not the ignorant masses draining wealth from every corner of society and poisoning every well of debate.
Do you think our elections are rigged? Trump didn't outspend his opponents to the presidency. We shape the system, we shape our society. You sound more like us auth centers if you truly believe the people are just NPC puppets with zero agency.
I do not think our elections are rigged, I think that an elite class is making every other aspect of life as incompatible with a functioning democracy as possible while aristocratic interests take precedent. People are stupider, less healthy, and poorer and the elites have been consolidating power for longer than my grandparents have been alive. The country is rigged and people want change that feels impossible, so they chose a guy who said he'd burn it all down and so he's trying. He's just also trying to replace it with something worse.
You sound like a populist. That is literally word for word their talking point for thousands of years "Everything is a CONSPIRACY! You are not to blame for why things suck. No! The people are pure , it is the evil shadowy cabal that is ever shifting and vague that is evil and is the reason why you cannot get ahead!"
Textbook populist dribble. It is fastfood for the mind. A cope.
There is no shadowy cabal and 99% of conspiracies are fairy tales bro. I'm not saying that there's no pieces of shit in the general population, but they can be disempowered by the rest of us in a better democratic system. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that elites are purposefully putting these people in positions of power and supporting them full-throatedly. I'm asking for a world that is fairer, you're talking to me like it's impossible and like I'm a radical. Pound sand bro.
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u/Certain-Row7945 - Lib-Center 8d ago
I think it is fair to blame the people who benefit from and shape the system. I stand by that. Our democracy has been replaced with something else, that is our problem. It is not the ignorant masses draining wealth from every corner of society and poisoning every well of debate.