Political Memes

Most of the members of Congress are extremely wealthy, Republican and Democrat alike. They're not doing anything about this coup consolidating capitalist class power because they stand to personally gain from it. They don't have to pretend to not have the votes to stop yet another grab at working class wallets because they can point at Elon and say "we have no power here."

There are certain people who never want to hear it, but very few national politicians give a shit about us, certainly not enough to make a difference. They're in it for personal gain, everything else is performative.

I feel like too many people don't know how passing laws work.

Second highest voter turn out for a presidential election in US history.

Clearly its the voters fault.....

Also why in the broken nation is the assumption that if more people showed up they would have voted like you? I never got this concept. Please spend more effort being an opposition/resistance and less being poor losers.

It's a legitimate question.

One of those things where both

1. Nonvoters who complain that Democrats aren't doing enough to protect them are exactly the kind of entitled twats who attack what meagre defenses we have against fascism, and then whine (blaming those same defenses they themselves worked to undermine) when fascism attacks them.

AND

2. Dems who do nothing in this period are inex-fucking-scusable, if predictably adhering to their norms-based civility politics schtick which plays so well with suburban white folk; and Dems in general are only interested in reform insofar as public opinion forces them to support it, and not an inch further.

are true.

They should like... Be politicians though. We get they can't pass legislation, but be fucking politicians.

Republicans out of the majority make you sniff their shit daily and are all over the news cycle. Democrats seem to think it's ok to just say they're concerned and send me fundraising emails.

This is assuming we didn't vote and things weren't "lost".

We deserved a hand recount at least. The fact that they didn't try is telling.

I'm just gonna leave this here: https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won/

There is evidence to support widespread vote suppression is occurring by "vigilantes" knocking people off the voter registry amongst other tactics

The results at my last city vote was depressing. We had 20% turn out. Twenty! And we have mail-in by default here

Thankfully the people who did vote voted for the positive changes we need but it's not hard to imagine how easily 20% of the population can be easily swayed

While some people don’t vote out of apathy, others are a target of indirect disenfranchisement that prevents the working poor from voting.