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There are now officially two Americas: the one grounded in actual, factual reality, and one so deluded by propaganda and hate that reality is no longer in their grasp. How do you counter act this? How do you stop Don Quixote from fighting the evil windmills?
investing more in education sure wouldnt hurt, getting money OUT of politics, basically all the things a social compact is for.
congress has to legislate responsibly or bear responsibility for flushing the states dowm the shitter.
Get term limits going.
Illegalize gerrymandering.
Vote Harris.
there are lots of things to do, and the best thing for the average American to do is vote and donate time if they have it.
or you could become an activist lawyer. or movement lawyer.
there are lots of important things to do, but Congress bears the responsibility to get most of this done and has chosen not to for decades becuase It's way easier to profit off their positions of privilege.
there's lots of things to do.
do what you can.
But education funding is mostly local - many states wouldn’t even accept free money to feed kids with no strings attached
Gerrymandering is probably a judicial issue.
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I find it funny that all the replies to this comment are things like, “get money out of politics” or “increase spending on education.” In other words, things that require legislative action.
So all we need to fix our broken system is for that broken system to work correctly. Got it.
Two very important steps to start with:
Corporations are not people. They should not be able to lobby, donate funds, or be a scapegoat for their executives in a lawsuit.
Restore truth in print laws, which were removed thanks to corporations being considered as people and allowed advertisers to lobby this legislation be removed under the guise of it hurting their buisness.
Then you've got a chance of stopping this shit. But these two legislative changes can be attributed to as the first to steps on the horrible path our democracies have taken to their ultimate enshitification where they have taken the power from the people and put it in the hands of the wealthy.
How do you stop Don Quixote from fighting the evil windmills?
What, are you pro cancer?
Lmao did not mean to make that correlation
He keeps on repeating the lie that the election was stolen without any consequences at all. Fox lies to their viewers every night without any consequences at all.
When will we stop letting these fascist assholes lie to Americans and brainwash them into thinking the lies are true? It's obviously damaging to America and they're just allowed to fucking damage America without anyone stopping them or them receiving any consequences. It's fucking ridiculous. It needs to stop otherwise America will never recover from the fascist bullshit.
When we reform campaign finance laws so that corporate media can no longer buy policy positions, things can change. Until then it’s not happening, because this exact thing resulted in the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine during Reagan’s presidency in 1987.
This is what happens when you don't hold criminals accountable for their actions. If we'd actually been tough on these assholes, then we wouldn't be in this predicament. What are we going to do when all these states say that Trump won? If the past is any indication, the Democrats will cave and let Trump take office, or will bring their case to the SC who have shown that they don't give a shit about democracy and will install a Republican regardless of the election outcome.
We should have tried those responsible for January 6 and held them accountable, including long prison sentences. I'm looking at you, Trump, Gohmert, MTG, and anyone else who actively tried to overthrow our government or gave in-depth, secret tours to groups that tried to.
Hopefully countermeasures are in place.