• kimagure@kbin.social
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      Asteroid problem is more solvable than political problem.
      Armageddon solved it like in 2 hours or so.

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      Is it though?
      CEOs don’t want to risk their profits.
      Politicians don’t want to risk their terms.
      Voters don’t want to lower their living standards.

      No one really wants to do something.

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        Voters not wanting to lower their living standards is the real elephant in the room. You tell someone that they should eat 1 less hamburger a week and all of a sudden you’re dodging bullets.

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        As if the voters are any better. They could vote for policy makers that bring change, or go into politics themselves. But they don’t actually want to be affected by such policy changes. It’s always the others, always just finger pointing.

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          Are you talking about American voters?

          Only about 35 percent of the eligible voters participated, so yeah. Apathy and complacent comfort is a big player in the game. I’m pretty convinced that a lot of people’s apathy comes from the lack of political agency. When business interests conflict with human interests guess who wins every time.

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              Ok. Well, not all countries are democracies. So, excluded those ones right off the bat. And then narrow it to voters who participate and those who do not.

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                  I think America is one of the participatory democratic countries. But many other countries are not. What are you actually confused about??

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                    Participating in what exactly? What the hell are you on about with this US brabbling? You simply don’t make any sense and don’t seem to have a point. That’s what I’m confused about. I didn’t mention America, I said voters. Of course that includes the US and excludes non democratic countries, as they do not have voters. So what are you exactly trying to say here?