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    1 year ago

    Civil disobedience may not be the best way forward. A better approach I think is voting more progressive thinkers into congress and other places of power and authority.

    Remember: countries where the Nordic model is used for social welfare and economic development/growth are thriving, consistently voted high in the happiness index, and also have been rejecting the far right extremism seen else where in Europe

    He’s super point on here

    … The smug, self-righteousness of this crusade against Trump only contributes to the national reality television show that has replaced journalism and politics.

    It is accompanied by a refusal to confront and name the corporate forces responsible for our failed democracy.

    This collusion with the forces of corporate oppression, which have impoverished the working class, fostered endless war, militarized our police, created the largest prison system in the world, licensed corporations to exploit the most vulnerable and transferred wealth upwards into the hands of a billionaire class, neuters the press, Trump’s critics and the Democratic Party.

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      A better approach I think is voting more progressive thinkers into congress and other places of power and authority.

      It feels like a long con. The years of eroding the educational budget have finally paid off. It’s going to be an upward battle to bring back logical thinking and media literacy.

    • aleph@lemm.ee
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      A better approach I think is voting more progressive thinkers into congress and other places of power and authority.

      And as we have seen, true progressives have been repeatedly pushed from the ticket in favor of establishment-friendly centrists time and time again. The two-party duopoly won’t allow it.