• SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    You may have been taught in school that democracy is an ideal system. But when you become an adult you learn the truth about it. It’s not actually about getting the perfect person that everyone agrees with in power. Because that’s impossible, people don’t agree on anything.

    Democracy is really about preventing the worst people from having power. You will never be voting for someone that you 100% agree with because that’s impossible, no one agrees on everything. But it’s your duty as a citizen to determine who is are the worst people on the ballot and determine which way to vote to either remove those people from power or prevent them from getting it. That’s what democracy really is. Welcome to adulthood.

    • Guy_Fieris_Hair@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      I am very likely older than you. And I don’t “not 100%” agree with, It’s more like Trump I agree with 0%, and Biden is like 0.2%. I refuse to believe that the founding fathers wanted two senile men that can’t hold their shit babbling aimlessly on TV with an army of think tanks and billionaires behind them telling them what to say to manipulate the masses with the two party system. “Preventing the worst people”… they are both some of the worst people in American politics right now. One is actively a shitbag and the other is propped up by shitbags.

      Maybe I should just accept the shitbags and be thankful I guess. Fall in line. I will fight the bullshit until someone does better or I die, whichevercomes first. I’m sure it will be the latter.

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        7 months ago

        If it’s just 0.2% you’re not factoring in judicial appointments with the gravity they deserve.

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        7 months ago

        Most of the founding fathers you’ve idealized were slave owners. Many of the compromises they made with slave owners required a brutal civil war to correct. Some of those compromises (like the electoral college) still exist today and have already resulted in Trump having one term in office and could result in another. The intentions of the electoral college that the founding fathers created was to give more power to slave owners. Today it gives slightly more (but enough that it can change the result) voting power to racists. Trump winning the election in 2016 came about because of the system the founding fathers created, and it was a system created by white supremacists for white supremacists. Donald Trump is exactly the kind of person the founding fathers made the system to elect.

        I’m fairly certain Joe Biden is against slavery, while these founding fathers you worship were for it. Unless you think slavery is a good thing, then you agree with Joe Biden far more than you agree with the founding fathers you idolize.

        Political leaders have always been terrible. Sorry to be the one to have to break it to you.

    • hark@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Democracy isn’t about filtering candidates through one of only two viable parties that are both completely controlled by rich donors.