The problem isn’t the system, the problem is that most people don’t agree with you
I think this is objectively untrue, as evidenced by the rampant “lesser of two evils” analogies that fly every single election season. Hell, Joe Biden won the election and he was the fifth least popular candidate in the Democrats’ own primary, ahead of “Mike” Bloomberg. (The party bribed everyone else but Sanders to drop out.)
The problem is that, absent a homegrown terrorist event or a presidential assassination (neither of which I condone, mind you) the people are effectively powerless in the face of the stranglehold the oligarchy has on our government.
But, the people have gone all Blair Mountain before. It could happen again I suppose.
If you only show up on presidential Election Day. And, if you only really think that the president role is important. Well, then what you say is true. It’s just the lesser of 2 evils.
BUT.
There are 537 elected officials in the federal government. Thousands of elected representatives in state and local governments. Those people combine to make a force of authority that is WAY more important than the president. Joe Biden didn’t send the NYPD to bust up a protest at Columbia, the NYC authorities did that. Why did NY choose leaders like that?
We don’t have a king that leads us. We have a head of state that pretty much just points themself in the direction WE were already heading. If you want to change that direction, it’s a long project. The most important election this year is your congressional and local primary. That’s where you get to decide what’s going to happen in 5yrs. The potus election is just a silly game where we have to keep the ball away from an idiot madman so that the rest of us can run a country.
I think this is objectively untrue, as evidenced by the rampant “lesser of two evils” analogies that fly every single election season. Hell, Joe Biden won the election and he was the fifth least popular candidate in the Democrats’ own primary, ahead of “Mike” Bloomberg. (The party bribed everyone else but Sanders to drop out.)
The problem is that, absent a homegrown terrorist event or a presidential assassination (neither of which I condone, mind you) the people are effectively powerless in the face of the stranglehold the oligarchy has on our government.
But, the people have gone all Blair Mountain before. It could happen again I suppose.
If you only show up on presidential Election Day. And, if you only really think that the president role is important. Well, then what you say is true. It’s just the lesser of 2 evils.
BUT.
There are 537 elected officials in the federal government. Thousands of elected representatives in state and local governments. Those people combine to make a force of authority that is WAY more important than the president. Joe Biden didn’t send the NYPD to bust up a protest at Columbia, the NYC authorities did that. Why did NY choose leaders like that?
We don’t have a king that leads us. We have a head of state that pretty much just points themself in the direction WE were already heading. If you want to change that direction, it’s a long project. The most important election this year is your congressional and local primary. That’s where you get to decide what’s going to happen in 5yrs. The potus election is just a silly game where we have to keep the ball away from an idiot madman so that the rest of us can run a country.
Excellent comment.
In my local area in practically every election there’s at least one office that goes unopposed. IOW, whoever bothers to show up.