Who is funding this?
brianary
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Should I not be calling it "trans"?
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/37394/why-do-some-words-have-x-as-a-substitute
If voters bear no responsibility, do you really believe in democracy, or are you thinking about this as an issue to be solved by authority?
The self-righteousness of this discussion is a problem. Politics requires some humility, which we seem to be short of.
Interesting. That's an angle I'll have to consider. It seems like democracy with fixed terms and term limits has a similar problem to capitalism: myopia.
Liberal isn't shorthand for libertarian.
I guess I'm focused on the professed, not measured, group size.
I really like the tiling window support in Pop_OS!'s Cosmos desktop.
I don't believe I am talking about two different numbers when I'm talking about the same voting bloc for both.
The "we" I used was probably misplaced, since I think you are making a distinction between your position and "leftists", who are the people I've seen on Lemmy advocating for destroying the system.
I'm not sure I follow your point about political engagement, I don't think I mentioned anything about that. I was commenting on the size of the group of third-party and non- voters. If that group wasn't big enough to change the outcome, I just don't see how they could be relevant at all.
I think we must be in agreement, though, since you suggest that Democrats need to better engage with the working class. Maybe we need a dedicated labor party, though without a more parliamentary system, the parties can't really be single-issue in the US.
Our politics needs more humility.
Self-righteousness is the root of the greatest evils.
I'm just worried about another No Labels situation.