Post AdaTTjaUsWCaR6A3sm by gentrifiedrose@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #AdaTTgF7JYJk3v8Rdo by HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social
2024-01-05T21:39:24Z
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“The low expected turnout in the upcoming elections reflects a popular rejection of the…political system, which is suffering from a legitimacy crisis and the absence of real opposition forces to vie with the parties in power…”We have no problem identifying low voter turnout as a consequence of political illegitimacy. People decline to vote because they recognize that voting will not produce meaningful change, because it’s not worth it and because they don’t want to participate in a corrupt system……as long as we’re talking about countries other than the US. When US voters withhold their participation, they’re almost certainly going to hear about how they personally want fascism to win. Haven’t you heard that this is The Most Important Election in Our Lifetime? All systemic analysis goes out the window and all we can talk about is personal failure.https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/iraqi-political-systems-legitimacy-problem-low-expected-turnout-provincial
(DIR) Post #AdaTTh6I7qqsiq0uWW by Radical_EgoCom@mastodon.social
2024-01-05T22:24:01Z
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@HeavenlyPossum People rejecting voting signifies a recognition that electoral participation reinforces our flawed structures, lacking the power (or refusing) to challenge them. Voting is finally being viewed as an inadequate means for meaningful change that operates within biased frameworks. The emphasis will hopefully shift to direct action, community organizing, and dismantling oppressive hierarchies, prioritizing collective empowerment over having faith in the "democratic" electoral system.
(DIR) Post #AdaTThvL43gXH9tg5g by libramoon@mastodon.social
2024-01-06T03:15:55Z
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@Radical_EgoCom @HeavenlyPossum it seems to generally be the nonvoters that are the bulk of the electorate – abdication of democracyperhaps because we don’t emphasize that voting is the minimum duty of citizens in a democracy
(DIR) Post #AdaTTimVsMDfw4m8yO by Radical_EgoCom@mastodon.social
2024-01-06T04:02:54Z
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@libramoon @HeavenlyPossum America isn't a country where decisions are made by the people, it's a country where all decisions are ultimately made by the ruling class, the wealthy capitalist class, i.e. an oligarchy.
(DIR) Post #AdaTTjaUsWCaR6A3sm by gentrifiedrose@mastodon.social
2024-01-07T00:21:32Z
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@Radical_EgoCom @libramoon @HeavenlyPossum We're a republic ruled by militarized capitalism. Its not widely known that we were never a democracy.
(DIR) Post #AdaTTkWHPgQHKJCCwq by libramoon@mastodon.social
2024-01-07T00:42:20Z
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@gentrifiedrose @Radical_EgoCom @HeavenlyPossum Dictionary"re·pub·lic/rəˈpəblik/nouna state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch."seems like what most of us call a democracy
(DIR) Post #AdaTTlDsnZIjVXb1ua by HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social
2024-01-07T00:50:31Z
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@gentrifiedrose @Radical_EgoCom @libramoon “The power is held by the people” is question begging. If there is a state apart from the rest of society, then the state, not the people, holds power.
(DIR) Post #AdaTTm4LeVGi8G8vgm by libramoon@mastodon.social
2024-01-07T00:52:44Z
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@HeavenlyPossum @gentrifiedrose @Radical_EgoCom ok, I didn't understand thatexpand?
(DIR) Post #AdaTTmaxhFM9lPOyWW by HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social
2024-01-07T00:58:47Z
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@gentrifiedrose @libramoon @Radical_EgoCom If there is some segment of society called “the state” that holds power over the everyone else who isn’t part of the state, then we can’t say that “the people hold power.”When we define a republic as a system in which “the state” and “the people” hold power, we’re begging the question that this is even possible. We’ve baked a paradox into the very definition of the word.
(DIR) Post #AdaTTnH9AP6HsF8fHE by libramoon@mastodon.social
2024-01-07T01:23:43Z
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@HeavenlyPossum @gentrifiedrose @Radical_EgoCom no paradox, just different definitions from those apparently yoursa state is a conglomeration of individual people
(DIR) Post #AdaTTnu8pQIBpBNo3c by HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social
2024-01-07T01:25:46Z
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@gentrifiedrose @Radical_EgoCom @libramoon Sure, a state is a conglomeration of *some* people. It almost certainly does not include *you.*
(DIR) Post #AdaTToQ2unoTQ8JHmq by libramoon@mastodon.social
2024-01-07T01:28:38Z
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@HeavenlyPossum @gentrifiedrose @Radical_EgoCom if I am part of that state, it most certainly does include mea state, a government, a mob -- these are not some autonomous edifice -- they are people doing the work or not to keep the thing part of the social fabric
(DIR) Post #AdaTTp6ENxYbWy2yXY by HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social
2024-01-07T01:33:03Z
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@gentrifiedrose @libramoon @Radical_EgoCom You are not part of the state if your only involvement is casting a periodic and mathematically insignificant ballot for one of two candidates chosen from among our wealthy elites, neither of whom will pursue your interests or preferences.
(DIR) Post #AdcNAEwVtuMB6nziPQ by freenaturalman@kolektiva.social
2024-01-07T23:17:10Z
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@Radical_EgoCom @HeavenlyPossum the process of election is inadequate for meaningful change, exactly. Too many are unsatisfied with results from elections, and we do not have government more sensitive to the people of the state. In fact the real enemy to us to have in mind is the state, which will grow more oppressive at every chance. Everything is building up for government to try getting more control and more is getting ruined with exploitation government allows to businesses that empower it. https://www.iflscience.com/a-1972-report-about-global-collapse-is-proving-to-be-surprisingly-accurate-69571