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I’ve been singing a made up variation of this song including our pets’ extra names since 2008.

It probably pops up no less than 3 times a week, every week. Every week.

So long as we’re stuck with a two party system, and money is wholly controlling the political process, your statement is true. Attempt to disrupt all you like, but vote like the person elected could ruin your life.

At some point we have to amend the Constitution to remove money from the political process, then disruption happens easily. Until then, unless ranked choice voting has been implemented in your local elections, voting for somebody with zero likelihood of winning is logically voting for the eventual winner.

I hope we someday have the reality of seeing more than two parties compete on a national level, but it’s not happening in 2024. The youth needs to be much more organized and have much higher voter turnout before that’s a possibility.

I think there’s a non-zero probability that American democracy ends with Trump, and there’s very little benefit gained by a 2nd Trump presidency either way.

Biden buys the youth more time to get organized and start restructuring the country. But the youth has to get their shit together, pick better candidates, and vote.

We are at the end of an era, and you can toss out much of the conventional thinking from the past 50 - 70 years. When the millennials and Gen Z finally come together in force they will shape the country how they see fit. The boomer/silent gen majority that we were stuck with for 50 years is gone - all the younger generations have to do is vote for their priorities.

This will happen in one of the next 3 major elections purely due to numbers.

Lastly, the youth needs to understand that voting is about aligning the trajectory of the leadership as closely with your values as possible. You are making decisions now that have long term effects on your quality of life.

The fundamental goal of anybody supporting democracy has to be removing the influence of money from politics. It is at the core of every issue.

The path of getting there is not known, but anything accomplished without that goal in mind is of lesser importance.

Remove money from the political process and all ships will rise.

Voting or not voting without that concern in mind has potentially devastating consequences to your future.

It’s not binary, but I agree with your general sentiment.

However, the American citizen has been propagandized and groomed to be corporate bootlickers. To our own demise, we accept the gross negligence of both parties to create reasonable regulation to maintain the balance needed for capitalism to function fairly.

I’m thinking you don’t know the definition of “neoliberal.”

We should likely do as much of this as possible.

Seems this could accelerate the problem taking care of itself.

They’ll eventually say it was a mistake, and then immediately go back to doing their normal BS.

Welcome to the outcome of poorly regulated capitalism - corporate benefit outweighs societal benefit.

The content is good, so I support the content.

If all we ever do is hold purity contests over secondary and tertiary concerns, like the platform, we’ll never accomplish anything.

So, an innocuous supplement treatment, with multiple legitimate studies is the same as healing crystals? Got it.

Not everything in the world is horse parasite quackery.

My doctor did review the studies and agreed it was worth trying given the lack of known long COVID treatments.