Just because you can’t solve everything all on your own doesn’t mean you’re effectively powerless.
What does make you powerless is refusing to act because you have to be part of a crowd to help, instead of some lone avenging angel who can solve everything with a snap of their fingers.
Also the founding fathers sucked and were constantly drunk slave holders.
Hey now, let a man have his drink now and again, or we’ll put another tax on whiskey.
The best Founding Fathers were the abolitionists among them, though. Most of the slave-holders who shat up the founding are long-forgotten by popular culture, except for Jefferson and Madison.
I imagine most would be pleased. They only ever wanted the voice of wealthy men to matter in the first place, and now it’s the supreme law of the land.
I don’t think so, they were trying to get away from a government that pushed too heavily onto the people. Regardless, it was a question that can never have an answer, since we cannot ask them.
When they created the United States, their Constitution only allowed the vote to wealthy male landowners.
They’d be exceedingly pleased with the way things turned out. They never wanted common people to have any real voice beyond dying for wealthy people’s property.
You all deprive yourselves of our votes by failing to follow through on your promises, along with those of the half of this country that can’t afford to miss a desperately needed day’s pay in order to vote for someone they know is only going to ignore them once elected.
Your party is the problem. You don’t get to beat people down and then pretend you’re the aggrieved party because they didn’t stand up with blood pouring down their faces and ask for more.
The concentration camp was never the normal condition for the average gentile German. Unless one were Jewish, or poor and unemployed, or of active leftist persuasion or otherwise openly anti-Nazi, Germany from 1933 until well into the war was not a nightmarish place. All the “good Germans” had to do was obey the law, pay their taxes, give their sons to the army, avoid any sign of political heterodoxy, and look the other way when unions were busted and troublesome people disappeared.
Since many “middle Americans” already obey the law, pay their taxes, give their sons to the army, are themselves distrustful of political heterodoxy, and applaud when unions are broken and troublesome people are disposed of, they probably could live without too much personal torment in a fascist state — some of them certainly seem eager to do so.
- Michael Parenti. (1996). Fascism in a Pinstriped Suit
Many people have been living under fascism in the United States for decades, suffering under explicitly racist police and judiciary systems, fighting against explicitly fascist foreign policy, and trying to wake people up to the explicitly fascist rhetoric of both democrats and republicans.
First they came for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,<— you are here
and by that time there was no one
left to speak up for me.
I am one of the <1% that vote Green.
My only agenda is shouting into the void because I am effectively powerless.
Just because you can’t solve everything all on your own doesn’t mean you’re effectively powerless.
What does make you powerless is refusing to act because you have to be part of a crowd to help, instead of some lone avenging angel who can solve everything with a snap of their fingers.
No, what makes me powerless is that 99% of people who vote make the same choices every election regardless of the quality of the candidate.
And that, I definitely cannot change.
At some point in history, voting was about picking the best, most qualified candidate.
In recent years, voting has become picking the person that makes the other color lose.
I wonder what the Founding Fathers would think of what their country has become.
I got some bad news for you buddy
This issue is not recent by any stretch of the imagination.
Also the founding fathers sucked and were constantly drunk slave holders.
Hey now, let a man have his drink now and again, or we’ll put another tax on whiskey.
The best Founding Fathers were the abolitionists among them, though. Most of the slave-holders who shat up the founding are long-forgotten by popular culture, except for Jefferson and Madison.
I imagine most would be pleased. They only ever wanted the voice of wealthy men to matter in the first place, and now it’s the supreme law of the land.
I don’t think so, they were trying to get away from a government that pushed too heavily onto the people. Regardless, it was a question that can never have an answer, since we cannot ask them.
When they created the United States, their Constitution only allowed the vote to wealthy male landowners.
They’d be exceedingly pleased with the way things turned out. They never wanted common people to have any real voice beyond dying for wealthy people’s property.
At least you’re honest about it
No reason to hide it.
The shameful thing is being a proud Democrat or Republican after the last 40 years of regression for the American people.
The shameful part is people like you help usher in fascism so you can feel superior
That is numerically impossible.
My side has no power whatsoever.
Except to starve the non fascist of a vote which you admitted to
That is a falsehood.
You all deprive yourselves of our votes by failing to follow through on your promises, along with those of the half of this country that can’t afford to miss a desperately needed day’s pay in order to vote for someone they know is only going to ignore them once elected.
Your party is the problem. You don’t get to beat people down and then pretend you’re the aggrieved party because they didn’t stand up with blood pouring down their faces and ask for more.
Yeah it’s a falsehood unless you look at what the options are and have some ideas of what the future holds, which we do
What you’re doing is entirely self-interested jerking, only useful to feel (falsely af) superior
I gotta say your username makes a lot of sense in this context. No concern for working together with others
Thank you for your opinion.
Good luck with the election. Your entitlement to the votes of Greens without doing anything to earn them is definitely a bold strategy.
That’s because your side is just you.
I know.
We have no power. I’m just shouting into the void because it’s the only recourse I have.
- Michael Parenti. (1996). Fascism in a Pinstriped Suit
Many people have been living under fascism in the United States for decades, suffering under explicitly racist police and judiciary systems, fighting against explicitly fascist foreign policy, and trying to wake people up to the explicitly fascist rhetoric of both democrats and republicans.
Dafuq, ai?
“everything I don’t like is fascism”
Almost every presidential election I write in a name because neither two major candidates deserve my vote. Glad I get to help “usher in fascism”.
Jerkin’ for one
Always happy to rub one out.
No one was confused about that
Good. I was concerned word had yet to spread around sufficiently.
Please keep voting.
Would I recommend you vote differently than you say? Maybe, but so what. Just please vote, and encourage others to vote.
Luckily my city has excellent early voting, so it’s not too inconvenient.
You are not powerless, but on Lemmy you may feel like your opinion doesn’t matter due to the overwhelming liberal population.
I’m a Green Party voter.
I am powerless.
I guess I gotta appreciate the honesty??
LOL
It’s not a bad thing to be a Green Party supporter. Do you not support democracy?
Oh wait, we’re talking about Democrats here. They only pay lip service to Democracy for their party alone.
Green Party is good politically, but they’ll never win unfortunately. So by voting Green Party you are only wasting your vote.
No, I’m wasting my vote by rubber stamping the two parties who’ve ruined the American experience over these last four decades.
Sounds like If you don’t vote Biden you are wasting your vote. Good thing we have choices
How is lemmy overwhelmingly liberal? I’d say there are more leftists then liberals here