This is it, Charlie Brown, if you vote one more time there will be real change!

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[–]JasonCarswell 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

There is zero excuse for continuing with the extant system. They could have brought more and more democracy to the people and actually given them a voice. The days of the Pony Express are long over. Since then the telegraph, telephone, radio, television, and now computers are much faster at conveying information back and forth. Everyone has been trapped in their ritual that they don't realize how it's being used against them.

There was no difference in the 1960s. The ruling class got their way and the poor suffered. It just seemed like a golden era after the 2 world wars prior and the the middle class wealth ahead of the rest of the oppressed world seemed luxurious by comparison. I know few who would give up all the modern conveniences of today to return to a life of the 60s.

Right now China is booming much like the USA was in the 60s. Eventually the ruling class will squash them too when the Singularity makes them all obsolete.

Changing gerrymandering to fix voting to fix gerrymandering to fix the chicken and the egg which comes first problem.

"If voting were effective they'd make it illegal."

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    [–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

    We aren't staying get rid of voting. We are saying rewrite the fucking system. You think the West is a democracy? You are wrong. It's a flipper version of fascism, where the government is OWNED by corporations. This isn't a democracy, especially not if every career politician becomes a lobbyist when they leave office. There's so many conflicts of interest that it's truly silly to call the west a democracy. There is way way way too much fuckery going on here for it to be called a fair legal system. The only authority it has at this point is the threat of force (and then carrying out those threats)

    [–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    Brilliantly stated.

    [–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    " But that doesn't mean that simply to vote every couple years fixes everything. "

    Truth.