• MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I think its pretty evident that the majority of Americans support Democratic party policy vs the GOP. The GOP has power not because they’ve won fair democratic elections, but because they’ve gerrymandered districts and passed anti voting policies. If you run fair elections where every eligible voter has the opportunity to vote the Democrats win in a landslide most of the time.

    Discussing how we boost turnout/engagement and getting more involved in the primaries is what I think we need to focus on, I think we agree there.

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      3 months ago

      Voter turnout is depressing, especially when so many say they want change.

      I do agree there is much gaming of the system by business and military interests, the uber wealthy, the regular wealthy, and numerous groups of bad actors from ultra conservative groups to organized hate groups. We need everyone we can participating if we want good outcomes.

      I think people are inherently liberal, because the world is always still moving forward. But overcoming a well entrenched and systematically reinforced hierarchy requires massive effort beyond raging at stories like this one.

      Yelling at people or preaching to the choir funny solve anything. We need to focus on awareness and education on issues and what people can do about them.