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[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Americans couldn't even be bothered to get off their asses and vote

People don't not vote just because they're lazy. Thats not how people or politics work. If the masses are not engaging with your political system it is because they do not feel engagement with it can be beneficial to them. It means are so disenfranchised that they do not see any reason to engage. It means overt fascism doesn't scare them because their lives are already too miserable or busy to think about politics and the opposition doesn't appeal to them because the only thing they offer is the status quo with the most minor of changes. People not voting should be the most obvious evidence that your political system is not working for the people.

Edit: also, no one chooses revolution. Revolutions are imposed on the people by those who make peaceful change impossible. Its gonna be fascism though to be clear. Our domestic petit bourgeois is far too strong and far too scared of losing their privileged positions.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago

People don’t not vote just because they’re lazy.

lol

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago

There’s also the people that have to chose between feeding their kids and missing work to go vote, etc, or who are disenfranchised of their voting rights simply by how onerous it is to vote.