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It's exhausting...
(lemmy.world)
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"It's soooo exhausting to vote one day every two years, so might as well allow as many republicans as possible to become firmly entrenched in every level of government, able to sabotage any attempt to push the inertia in any other direction."
Here's a novel idea: you are not just electing one charismatic godking messiah with a magic political wand to the executive office every four years, but an entire system of appointees and employees.
Then there's Congress, and the Supreme Court, and state governors and state congresses, city mayors and city council, school board, etc.
One side strives for reason and science, the other is scorched earth anti-science anti-reason ignorant hysteria. And you keep giving them enough power to thwart everything.
Tune out and stop watching the infotainment bullshit designed to keep us outraged and polarized every minute of the goddamned day, just show up at the polls each first Tuesday in November and vote Democrat. Once every two years is enough.
At this point, you have enough information to do this with great confidence that it is the correct and sane choice.
Let's get our collective heads out of the Middle Ages peasant mindset.
No. In a democracy, it should not be "enough" to partake in elections once every two years.
At least the peasants rebelled every once in a while when the lords fucked them over too much.
What do you think the anti-war protests, BLM marches, and Palestinian rights sit-ins were about?
Can't count the times a popular movement erupts onto the streets and a Democratic Mayor or Governor starts ringing the big "Call in the SWAT teams!" alarm bell to snuff it out.
Okay, get your guns! If I remember correctly from Project 2025, Trump wants to dispatch the military on the streets to stop the people from revolting against the christofascist dystopia he and his friends want to impose on others. Maybe you can be just like in the FPS games, and survive from health, weapon, and ammunition drops from the soldiers.
If your military is already so far gone that it will gun down protestors without remorse... why do you want to keep that system alive, again?
When you say once in a while, are you meaning once every few hundred years? If so then I agree and think we are perfectly on track.