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by amiga_500 2137 days ago
Why are the entire population just accepting the lack of democratic representation to defend their interests?
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I'm not sure what you're suggesting as an alternative. Large groups of people just marched in the street to protest far more heinous injustice that this corruption and the result was violent attacks by militarized police.

What do you suggest it looks like for us to not accept this?

Because they're too busy fighting amongst themselves on wedge issues.
People like to claim that but I don't see that as a real reason. I honestly think Americans have just gotten used to being stepped on they just accept it.
That's my working suspicion. They gave up.
If you grow up with no experience of not being stepped on, exactly what would you be giving up on? How exactly do you expect people on average to not accept the general state of the world as it has been for their entire existence?

Acceptance is the default. People, by and large, often do not have the experience of holding ideals of which to give up on that do not in one way or another map onto their experiences in a way suggesting they are living in-line with their ideals.

Well others have pushed back.

What I would like is for you guys to at least say this, instead of all the tiresome "freedom" stuff. Acceptance is the first step.

oh i'm with you there
At this point only a general strike or an armed insurrection would be enough to budge the corporate/state system from its entrenched positions. Voting is not working- many politicians promise to fix this and other problems but once in office they have no incentive to actually do so.
Voting is working. The problem isn’t that (voting); it’s voters who don’t care and vote while uneducated on the issues.
Because some people just like to be used. I think they call it codependence.