• @AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    The message should be that those cost-of-living, housing and healthcare issues arise from the subversion of the democratic institutions responsible for addressing them—and that one of the motivations of those who threaten democracy is to produce that outcome.

      • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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        8 months ago

        It also doesn’t help that rebuilding democratic institutions takes a long time, and people have rent due every month.

        It’s like telling someone their house is burning down that we’re going to fix climate change so that won’t happen anymore.

        • @Diplomjodler@feddit.de
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          18 months ago

          Not destroying them any further would be a good start, though. And I get it that people have a lot of legitimate grievances with the current political system. But anybody who thinks that voting for Trump is in any way shape or form a solution for those is just deplorably stupid.