• goferking (he/him)
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    5 days ago

    Political parties want to win elections. If you’re not doing anything, then there is no incentive for them to do anything you want.

    Weird, in America there is definitely one party that this doesn’t seem to apply for.

    And it’s amazing how the response to these politicians don’t actually represent us after they are elected is the party can only be failed never fail!

    • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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      The US has a fascist society where most people are against the free press and political opposition to the fascist leadership. The wealthy have created social media so that anyone that might oppose them will waste all of their energy on that instead of doing anything constructive.

      You never know, maybe things might turn around. But I’ve given up on Americans ever actually doing anything other than sporadic acts of violence (which only serve to help the fascists) and are completely incapable of mounting any effective resistance. Americans are broadly narcissistic and cannot bring themselves to vote for the opposition because of a fear of what their friends and family might think. Or because they need to maintain a social media image of being so hardcore leftist that voting for a “centrist” might hurt their “brand.” Most Americans are narcissists, so they are ruled by the biggest narcissist in the country. Trump won’t live forever, but I don’t see any sign of American culture changing for the better, so nothing will really change when he’s gone.

      It’s obvious how the US can get out of the mess it’s in, but Americans are simply too narcissistic to do it. Social media is basically like crack to a narcissist, and while most countries have issues with social media, nowhere are the problems more acute than in the US.