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  • zeropointone@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.world•This article won’t change your mind. Here’s why
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    9 minutes ago

    No, I’m not participating in any agenda. That’s the point. I’m basically anti-political now. I reject everything that’s available because everything available rejects me. It wasn’t like that in the past, but now it is and I can’t do anything about it, therefore I have to accept it. I learned to accept a lot in the last few years.

    I don’t encourage anybody regarding anything, it’s their business who they vote for or if they vote at all. It’s their world, not mine. Both conservatives and progressives made sure that I understood this lesson. It was a surprise regarding progressives because I thought they were the good guys. Well, live and learn.

    But hey. I make it easier for you. Let’s just say I don’t exist. Cases like mine would make the progressives look just as bad as the conservatives and you don’t want that, right? And because I don’t exist, my potential vote doesn’t exist either. Simple sophism. Maybe I’m just a MAGA who votes for Trump anyway. Maybe I’m just a Russian troll who isn’t allowed to vote. Maybe I’m just an AI which isn’t allowed to vote either (yet). Maybe I’m just a fever dream, it’s up to you. You can choose freely to make sure that the progressives will never look bad by denying my whole existence. Wouldn’t that make everything so much easier? No need for self-criticism and reformation - just like the conservatives. Neat! And so convenient. Yeah, let’s do it that way.

    And if we’re at this stage, why not pretend that Trump’s second presidency is a fever dream as well? I mean, the progressives are perfect, right? Because they must be. Therefore they must have won the election and now we’re actually living in a progressive Utopia instead of the Fourth Reich in the making. No ICE, no self-proclaimed health experts with brainworms and fear of vaccines and of course no orange guy who likes little girls a little bit too much. It’s all just a nightmare caused by too much pizza before bed. Isn’t the easiest solution always the best?

  • zeropointone@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.world•This article won’t change your mind. Here’s why
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    2 hours ago

    Of couse I’m not voting for anyone. Why should I vote for a political party which only makes my life worse, ultimately killing me? I never voted for a conservative party (I’m actually moderate left) because they obviously never had anything to offer. And now the progressives have reached the same level. There is no difference. I’ll be gone in a few months (thanks to both progressive and conservative politics), anything that happens afterwards is not my problem anymore, only the problem of people much more privileged than I am and who refused to share those privileges with me for once. It’s not like anyone would need my vote anyway. If there really was such a political party or movement, then they would have offered me something. Conclusion: Everything is exactly how it’s supposed to be.

  • zeropointone@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.world•This article won’t change your mind. Here’s why
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    5 hours ago

    To fix this, progressives need to take back wealth and power, so that everyone is supported in expanding their lives.

    But there is a problem: The progressives of today don’t want to support everyone anymore. They’re mirroring the tribalism of the far right but with the disadvantage of focusing on minorities, effectively reducing the pool of voters by a large amount, ignoring a lot of people in the middle. Those people don’t vote for the far right either (because predatory capitalism and fascism obviously), they don’t vote for anyone because it doesn’t make a difference to them who’s in charge, they’re screwed either way. Those are the people the progressives would have to listen to. But it looks like that’s not going to happen, rather the opposite. And because of that there’s no way for the progressives to take back the power anytime soon.