• Sickos [they/them, it/its]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Violence from the right toward the left is already happening. All that’s needed for a civil war is shooting back.

    The next election WILL NEVER BE BETTER. That is pure wishful thinking.

    How many more of these goddamn elections are we going to have to write off as lame, but “regrettably necessary” holding actions? And how many more of these stinking double-downer sideshows will we have to go through before we can get ourselves straight enough to put together some kind of national election that will give me and the at least 20 million people I tend to agree with a chance to vote for something, instead of always being faced with that old familiar choice between the lesser of two evils?

    -Hunter S Thompson, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

    It has been like this since well before either of us were alive, and it will be this way until climate change kills us all unless we stop believing the grand lie of electoralism and realize that politics happens more than once every four years.

    • notabot@lemm.eeEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Violence from the right toward the left is already happening. All that’s needed for a civil war is shooting back.

      Yes, that’s true, and it’s not just the left but minorities of all kinds too. I would rather find a way of walking back from that brink, rather than deliberately pushing the country over it.

      It has been like this since well before either of us were alive, and it will be this way until climate change kills us all unless we stop believing the grand lie of electoralism and realize that politics happens more than once every four years.

      If by that you mean that the electorate need to be engaged with politics more than every four years, then yes, absolutely. That’s why I keep saying people should be in contact with their representatives regularly, so they know your name and what you stand for. That should be happening in large groups ideally as it becomes hard to ignore when the numbers start putting you at risk of losing the next election.