• papertowels@lemmy.one
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    2 months ago

    In what world will a politician never disappoint you?

    I’m generally in full control of myself and even I disappoint myself - fringe third party candidates are not the political messiah some people think they are.

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      2 months ago

      I don’t understand how this is the argument against third party. Why does the candidate need to be the Messiah to be better than Kamala?

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        The question was why do we need to accept that politicians will disappoint you, implying that they had something they believed would not disappoint them.

        I thought it was a third party candidate.

        Apparently it was anarchism.

        Rookie Lemmy mistake.

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      In a world where “politician” isn’t a career, or even a thing that exists, and instead people make decisions communally and horizontally. It’s called anarchism.

      You not knowing or being able to imagine alternatives, doesn’t mean none exist.

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        Being able to imagine alternatives doesn’t mean they’re realistic.

        How realistic do you think this is?

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        Yes exactly. The only politician who will believe as you do 100% is yourself. You must run for office if this is your goal. Anything else is actually kinda fascist/controlling. In a better world, we’d have a direct democracy and everyone would get a voice.