Flippanarchy

Okay but I'm a posadist, so I do believe literally that aliens will drop in and do it all for us.

Also, idk where you're from, but hypocrites and selfish bastards are pretty normal here. Everybody's favorite leaders.

Sure, but places like Australia with mandatory voting shows that forcing increased participation doesn’t solve or really improve things.

Sooo... blaming the population for not participating in a fundamentally anti-democratic system didn't magically turn the fundamentally anti-democratic system into something democratic?

Colour me surprised.

yeah mandatory voting is not the solution. the argument that change must come from below has some merit, but in a climate of voter suppression it's not a useful one.

The people most likely to be impacted by gerrymandering and voter suppression typically vote more left leaning (kind of why they are impacted in the first place), so I'm not sure why you would suggest that this would move things to the right.

If anything, it would shift things a bit left. Not as far as it needs to go, but certainly not ratcheting to the right. Thats kind of an odd take.

Voting is generally accepted as "good" but zero practical allowances are actually afforded for it. You still have to get to work on time, kids are still going to school, all the normal things that overworked wage slaves deal with every day but now there's one extra thing that involves waiting in line for an hour they don't have. The OP is right, the deck is stacked against people actually participating and it's not all their fault.

I've talked to a lot of different people about this. People in different states, ages, professions, etc. Pretty much the main thing that keeps people from voting is that no one feels represented by either party. And for some people, they haven't felt represented their whole lives.

Also the whole voting is patriotic thing is kind of bullshit at this point. No one that I know personally thinks of voting as a super important thing that everyone should be proud of. That's just a media thing.

You see a small, loud subset of USAmericans on the web so I understand how you could think that we're all "super hyped on patriotism" but the fact is that most of us just wake up, do normal human things then go to bed. This over-generalization of huge populations of people is making me tired.

“Waahhhh I can’t handle seeing posts I disagree with so no one else should either”

I can see comments now but communities won’t load. Chapo shows as empty. Weird!

Since posting this comments now appear but communities still don’t show in feed and manually browsing they show as empty

Very well could be on my end but I don’t know what. I don’t have anything blocked or whatever. Weird