• Rusticus@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    We could have healthcare. Or free college. We are all complicit in this, like it or not.

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          1 year ago

          Vote for who? I always do my duty and vote for the lesser of the two evils, and they all turn out to be war criminals.

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          1 year ago

          Unfortunately, until we get money out of politics, voting doesn’t really matter.

          The ruling class can just funnel more money to the opposing side to get them elected. They’ve already got it down to a science so they don’t spend more than they need to.

          They haven’t even scratched the surface of how much money they can spend to control elections. It’s all just the bare-minimum to them, like maximizing profit.

          • Rusticus@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            100% agree. Until Citizens v United is overturned we do not have a functioning Democracy.

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      1 year ago

      Taxes aren’t what’s stopping us from having health care. We already spend more taxes on health care per capita than countries with single payer health care. (Not that changes that we could be using our taxes better, but the myth that we would spend more taxes to get single payer needs to be dispelled.)