As if Americans aren't trying this so so hard already! The reps are all paid off. You can't start a new party because the party with the most money wins (need money to advertise your campaign). Education is being gutted by republicans, and Fox news is 24/7 propaganda owned by the right - ThreadSky

voidburger.bsky.social • 4 days ago

As if Americans aren't trying this so so hard already! The reps are all paid off. You can't start a new party because the party with the most money wins (need money to advertise your campaign). Education is being gutted by republicans, and Fox news is 24/7 propaganda owned by the right

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rtbick.bsky.social•4 days ago

in addition to money, our electoral system inevitably leads to having two viable parties. voting 3rd party generally means the "worse of two evils" is more likely to win.

villesau.bsky.social•4 days ago

That's a fair point. Would probably need quite a reform to change that.

rtbick.bsky.social•4 days ago

ye, and if I could vent for just a moment, one of my own personal frustrations is that literally no one is talking about this while everyone justifiably shits on the Democrats. first past the post+electoral college makes me feel hopeless more than anything else sometimes

villesau.bsky.social•4 days ago

On the other hand, I'm sure theres a lot of embarrassed and disappointed moderate republicans at the moment. Maybe the split starts from there?

rtbick.bsky.social•4 days ago

that's exactly what the Democrats always try to do, and it doesn't work. it just shifts the overall politics to the right even further.

even if it does work next election bc of how things are now, I don't think having George Bush fans representing the left would be a good thing

voidburger.bsky.social•4 days ago

Finns are adorable in that they think justice/consequences/decency is a concept humankind/society naturally gravitates towards. We don't have accountability. We have rampant corruption and zero recourse to punish that. We have a very rotten individualistic society in the states. "Fuck you, got mine"

villesau.bsky.social•4 days ago

Even correcting people on Twitter could help to riggt direction. Now it's just full of mocking, that does not lead anywhere. It could be organized.

voidburger.bsky.social•4 days ago

America has 350 million people, about half of whom either condone this government, don't care, or at best, are too tired and poor and scared and sick to do anything.

Correcting people on social media, (especially with "well, significantly smaller countries can do it 🙄") is not very helpful

villesau.bsky.social•4 days ago

So it's better to just do nothing?

voidburger.bsky.social•4 days ago

Not what I said! I'm just saying the smug "have you tried turning it on and off again" stuff isn't helpful, it's just further demoralizing

villesau.bsky.social•4 days ago

To Europe the situation looks like this: https://theonion.com/democratic-leaders-stand-real-still-in-hopes-no-one-notices-them/

It might be a tactic to wait for Trump popularity to plummet too, but not sure.

I wonder how many democrats are e.g on truth social, or is it just a republican echo chamber?

villesau.bsky.social•4 days ago

Though, I have to say it also looks like the Onion piece also on the republican side now.

villesau.bsky.social•4 days ago

Honestly, I think that surprisingly Fox News did not do too bad job last night. Even they were not able to spin it. Ofc, the news were luke warm at best, but it's a start.

isthisbrent.bsky.social•4 days ago

It’s even worse if you’re stuck in a red state. I live in Tennessee and calling our reps or senators puts zero pressure on them.

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