I am surrounded by engineers and scientists… more than half of them dont vote beacause " this does not affect me". Frustrates me so much. This are educated people, relatively speaking. Maybe because they are still well-off economically? I don’t know. I don’t understand how they are so uninterested.
The engineers and scientists in my neck of the woods are very concerned about the shit that’s going on. The unionized floor techs on the other hand lean far more favorably to the orange dolt.
The only way out is;
- Landslide against Republicans for 2026 MidTerms.
- Landslide agains Republicans in 2028; to the point where they no longer exist.
- New progressive Democratic Party.
- Landslide against Right-Wing Democrats in 2030 Midterms
- Landslide against Right-Wing Democrats in 2032.
Famously, the way out of fascism has not been through democratic means. Fascist dictators tend to rig the democratic process to the point where it is obviously no longer democratic. The US has been seeing this since the founding of the country (electoral college, gerrymandering, voter suppression, 3/5ths compromise, lack of any federal direct ballot initiatives, mass propaganda campaigns like the Red Scare, etc.), but has only accelerated as more time has gone on, but more extreme contemporary examples would be countries like Russia, North Korea, or China.
The US also has a two party state due to the first past the post voting system that only accelerates this process faster, as the two parties are both corporate parties, and no party represents the will of the workers/lower classes.
Capitalists and fascists alike will do anything and everything in their power to both maintain and expand their power. The only exceptions are when there are mass, well-organized protests/uprisings/boycotts, but the corporations/the state also controls the media and now also the majority of the Internets’ communication services when “Web 2.0” started replacing less centralized services, making mass organization much more difficult.
That’s assuming that America is going to have free and fair elections (if at all) ever again.
I admit that that is a pretty big assumption, but I do have faith in the people.
It may be misplaced faith.
What if 8 years of election fraud bullshit was the setup to poison the waters when they actually use the techniques?
This is Russian psyops 101: play/fund both sides so when both are revealed corrupt, the populace is too confused to know what’s real.
So republicans say, for years, “Your Russian election claim is a hoax!” And then we get, “They stole the 2020 election!”
Now we have more statistical information showing signs of manipulation, but because Republicans have called out their opponent as manipulating elections, researchers are afraid too report facts based on voting tabulation.
We are in crisis. The country is socially fractured. We’ve been manipulated by our enemy (Russian oligarchs/mob/Putin). They repeated the lies enough that MAGA will believe any dumb shit while Democrats look like they are using Republican insults or tactics.
We’ve all been duped.
I’m pretty certain the 2024 election was rigged.
Idk why you would when they’ve failed so often for so long in that country.
The ratchet effect will ensure #3-5 never happen. I think we need to forget about #1-2 and go for #3 first and start treating 1/4 and 2/5 as the same.
It’s definitely not going to be that easy
And even if it were, we definitely aren’t going to get all those things.
the only way out is voting
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That’s not even an opinion anymore, it’s just an accurate description of events in the country
Except a third or more of that 80% thinks the crisis is the “violent radical left antifa superpredators.”
I think the one thing both sides are fully aware of, we live in vastly different realities.
Superduper predators, raawr
“People in a burning house believe there might be a fire inside their house”
Of voters. If that’s the only group that gives a shit we’re doomed.
And not one of them can agree on why.
That many stupid people. Wow.
