Come on. The mass protests yesterday prove there’s still some faith left.
They say the top 1% has the most power in the world, so make whatever faith you’ve got left in you your top 1%.
I wish we got that kind of turnout when it was time to vote.
That’s what happens when you gut Civic studies and make people apathetic about the Political process and their own countries. Despite parties claiming over and over that elections are important, barely over half the voters care enough to go vote.
In my city, barely over half care, too.
I hear that, and respect it.
but the efficacy and true democratic representational nature of American elections has been, is, and will continue to be incredibly fucked up.
From Jim Crow, women’s suffrage, civil rights, electoral college distortions, superdelegates, gerrymandering, first past the post, Citizens United, dark money, super PACs, disenfranchising felons, purging voter rolls, intimidating poll workers and voters, corporate monopoly over journalism/media/news, celebrity worship, manufacturing of consent, ID laws, Bush v Gore election theft to the fact that election day isn’t a holiday and most people work…
are US elections even free and fair? have they ever been?
I can understand people not prioritizing it or even bothering with it at all… when was the last time the govt truly did anything to help the plurality of voters? the New Deal?
I feel like one of the biggest issues (well besides the not a holiday one) is that we have to vote between two parties or people. We don’t get to say WHY we voted for someone.
I mean, not that I agree with it, but if your someone who voted for Trump because of his stance on Abortion, now your stuck with Tariffs and horrible isolationism and threats to allies and all sorts of things that have zero to do with why you voted for him.
Like wise, for the democrats that didn’t like Biden because he wasn’t doing enough or far enough left for you, you have zero other choices. We don’t vote on issues, we vote on flawed people and those people never know what they could have done to earn your vote if you went with someone else.
We regularly poll people and find that the American public wants X by a great majority, but neither of the candidates are for it.
Same here.
I literally spent a few minutes after typing those two words trying to decide/determine the exact moment I lost my faith in humanity, if such a moment actually existed. As a homosexual who grew up in a southern state of the USA, there were probably hundreds of such moments, but for some reason one particular interaction sticks out to me.
Totally random, and at the moment I don’t know why, but I think the day was Saturday September 15th, 2001.
I was working in retail at the time, and in specific, I was in charge of “customer service”. A customer showed up at the counter and he wanted to return a bag of dog food that our store didn’t even sell. He claimed he bought it at our store, but did not have a receipt. Despite our policy being that a receipt is required because of how much the dog food cost, I actually wasn’t worried about it at all. However, he wanted to exchange it for a more expensive name brand dog food, and felt like he shouldn’t have to pay the difference. It wasn’t even a situation where he was asking me to help, he was literally demanding that I give him the more expensive stuff for free.
Needless to say, I was not in the mood. He turned into the biggest asshole of the day. Screaming, throwing shit, called me a faggot, etc. Claimed he was veteran, and that I was unamerican for not giving him the more expensive bag of dog food for free because things have changed after 9/11.
And here it is, 25 years later, still sticks with me how giant of a cunt that sub-human scum was but also how much of a harbinger he was for the direction my country was heading.
I haven’t had faith in humanity for a very long time. I’m just glad my father isn’t alive to see what’s happening. I’m sure he would have been sucked in by the right-wrong propaganda and started crying foul about trans people or something. Look, dad, I love you, but trans people are not the problem.
May that crotchety is bastard rest in peace.
