• ameancow@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    This administration has been a great view into our manufactured political division.

    To say it very clearly and bluntly, our governing system has been hijacked by corporate interests, it’s been this way for a while, but for most of the modern age they’ve been good at “hedging their bets” and supporting both sides of the political spectrum, because they know society swings back and forth with regularity, and they just want to make sure they’re always on the winning side.

    When people checked out of political involvement in the last couple decades, it’s allowed the most corrupt and motivated thieves to organize and consolidate power, and yes the money followed them, and they are far less careful about showing their intentions. We had the whole panel of oligarchs attending the last inauguration like they’re one of the branches of government. They are treating this broken election like a mandate and they just totally abandoned the Democratic party and it shows. They have no money coming in, no marching orders, nobody is keeping their fire lit for the next shift because they’re going all-in on the idea of a fascist takeover of the country. Because that would be great for profits.

    • Septapus@lemmy.ca
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      2 days ago

      You got it imo. People checked out because politics are boring…Yet now that they’re far from boring this is what we end up with. Politics should be boring and boring isn’t a good enough reason to check out. Everyone was so obsessed with their own petty little lives and could care less about the consequences of elections. This opened the door for school boards to be taken over and local elections to go red around the whole country. Because assholes got bored we all have to pay the price. The entire globe will pay the price because people had more important things to do with their lives…