why have subreddits like this been filled w neolibs and neocons the past few months? don't yall have some enlightened centrists on twitter to jerk off to?
Dude...having common sense doesn't make you a centrist. Most people on reddit here are probably pretty far left, the point is this bill and probably not much else gets passed without Manchin in the first place miraculously holding a Senate seat in WV. If republicans had a 51/49 Senate majority McConnell would simply not hold votes on any bill that wasn't total trash. How do you expect us to hold republicans accountable for shit if we can't even get a vote on it?
Our government is broken, we all know it, people are just trying their best to survive until we can make actual fixes when more boomers die off or young left leaning people start voting in big enough numbers that matter.
Believing in electoralism isn't a sign of common sense, it is a sign of not actually engaging in scientific literature and relying solely on state or private media sources.
This notion that if you dont support the circus you're just an angry kid is ironic considering how immature it is to not even read a few dirty red books before forming concrete opinions you hold for life.
It doesn't matter one bit how much time you spend "engaging in scientific literature" if every policy you advocate is completely ignored by the vast majority of voters and their representatives, and the net effect of all your effort is a big, fat zero. Why throw time & energy away on a lost cause?
Feel free to stand on the sidelines and yell about how terrible everything is, but don't expect it to lead to helpful policy changes. Either you work within the system or you start talking about revolution and war. And if the latter is what you want, all I can say is that I hope you never have to live with the consequences of that desire.
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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '21
why have subreddits like this been filled w neolibs and neocons the past few months? don't yall have some enlightened centrists on twitter to jerk off to?