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Everyone on Lemmy who wants change, wants it from their couch with no effort. You guys complain about poor democratic candidates, but do you ever take part in the primaries, are you a registered voting member of the party? Have you contributed money and time to the campaign of your preferred candidate? Have you gonna door to door for them?
Or did you just sit back watching Netflix till the party put forward their candidate without your input, and at that point you decided to complain? At the finish line? Americans are the least politically involved people in terms of actually putting in the work. But they do love to tell the rest of the world how to live.
That’s the best part. I don’t really do a lot here in Canasa but I a) actually vote for who aligns with my beliefs and b) stay out the fucking way when positive change is mildly uncomfortable for me but someone’s doing the hard work to make it happen. Meanwhile there are people all over the internet who will actively try to dissuade people from doing thing A because it’s scary for them.
The general population barely has to do anything, and for being so conflict avoident they sure like to allow things to get so bad that much worse conflict becomes inevitable.