What if we find out one day, it was all an organized game, to screw over the citizens?

  • mspencer712@programming.dev
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    3 months ago

    I think this was asked in good faith, but is unfortunately unlikely to produce useful discussion. The down-voters are right but the original poster shouldn’t feel bad for asking.

    Short answer: it’s ok to say “maybe, we have no way to know, moving on” when something is unknowable like this.

    Longer answer / topic hijack: as voters there are many contradictions in our system, and important and necessary information is often hidden from us. Doing the best we can might take various forms:

    • choose government ran by the least-evil people possible and trust the imperfect system formed by the structured interactions of those people

    • choose government that follows policies that align the best with your values or your ethical understanding of the world

    • choose government that is best able to reduce harms and injustices, in a practical and realistic way that anticipates the acts of other factions

    • choose government led by people you hate the least — no, this one is toxic, lazy, easy to manipulate with lies. Manipulators know the longer they keep people hot with emotion the less time people spend learning.

    Please do not reply to this with hatred or calls for strong emotion. Leaders at any level can be deliberately evil, sure, but it’s never helpful to dehumanize entire clusters or demographics.

  • A_A@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    For your title did you try to write :
    “What
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    DNC is working with RNC” …?

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    3 months ago

    The Democrats and Republicans mostly despise each other, but the establishment from each naturally have a few things in common. I am not a centrist “both sides” guy. However, with rare exceptions, members of both major parties are pro-capitalism, just for starters.

    They are not secretly working together, but they do have somewhat overlapping goals. And some of those goals do screw over working people. Private health insurance tied to your employer is something both parties praise and support. That’s one easy example.

    And some of them cross the aisle and openly work together on bipartisan issues.

    Finally, the “left” in the United States is really not left. Both parties pull rightward. The Republicans pull rightward much harder than the Democrats. A few progressives and democratic socialists try to pull us left.

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    3 months ago

    Many people already know this and can’t do anything about it. Please resume your regularly scheduled busywork routine.

  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
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    3 months ago

    I don’t think it’s as simple as this, but lobby groups of course want to influence both parties. And all of them have a vested interest in keeping the two party system intact.