• BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    It’s so hard to watch people speak their values and beliefs and then promptly vote against them because of feelings based propaganda.

    • Danterious@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      If they were to vote for their values who would they vote for?

      The democrats aren’t upholding these values either and while I agree that they are much better than the current republican party it doesn’t mean that voting for them would be voting in their interest but instead in the least bad option.

      • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        1 year ago

        We vote blue not to change the system but because voting red makes the situation worse. The whole affair with the GOP stacking SCOTUS with Federalist Society jurists provides one example of many. At this time, they’re trying to neuter elections to push Democrats out entirely.

        To change society we’ll have to do far more than merely vote. And to date, we’ve had to claw every right we have by force or coercion, and when the public isn’t a direct threat to the elite, they feel free to strip away our rights. Dobbs was only the most public of the provisions: most fourth- and fifth-amendment protections have been stripped away, again by the US Supreme Court.

      • Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de
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        1 year ago

        If you look at what the administration is actually doing and trying to do, there is a lot of going to the right direction. There is absolutely not enough of that, they probably could and definitely should do more, but it’s disingenuous to say that they do absolutely nothing for the working class.