Donald Trump has responded to claims he will soon be visiting Vladimir Putin in Moscow following days of deepening ties between the US president and the Kremlin
Or maybe there’s no voting holiday and people are too burned out from working 3 part time jobs to make ends meet.
Perhaps if the dems offered anything of substance to the working class, people could have found a way to get to the polling booths. But they didn’t, so here we are.
Agreed, would love to see FPTP replaced with ranked choice voting, and getting rid of the electoral college altogether. This would open the door for a party actually on the left, and if given a platform I’m sure they’d dominate the current establishment. Believe it or not only a relatively small fraction of America is full on maga fascist.
I mean that’s how a lot of European systems work and clearly isn’t helping much there either. The reality is that liberal democracies turn towards fascism in times of crisis. The problem is with the inequality and the fact that a handful of rich oligarchs own everything while exploiting everyone else. No meaningful democracy is possible unless means of production are owned by the workers. The rich will always get their way.
Or maybe there’s no voting holiday and people are too burned out from working 3 part time jobs to make ends meet.
Perhaps if the dems offered anything of substance to the working class, people could have found a way to get to the polling booths. But they didn’t, so here we are.
Or maybe voting on which member of the ruling class will oppress people isn’t meaningful democracy.
Agreed, would love to see FPTP replaced with ranked choice voting, and getting rid of the electoral college altogether. This would open the door for a party actually on the left, and if given a platform I’m sure they’d dominate the current establishment. Believe it or not only a relatively small fraction of America is full on maga fascist.
I mean that’s how a lot of European systems work and clearly isn’t helping much there either. The reality is that liberal democracies turn towards fascism in times of crisis. The problem is with the inequality and the fact that a handful of rich oligarchs own everything while exploiting everyone else. No meaningful democracy is possible unless means of production are owned by the workers. The rich will always get their way.