• arcturus@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    but the thing about voting is that basically every politician is either:

    1. In the pocket of one or more corporations
    2. Literally part of a corporation (or outright owns one)
    3. A politician at who doesn’t have as much power as the former two or is in the pocket of one of them

    so we could vote for John StopClimateChange, and then find out that every single thing that Mr. StopClimateChange said about his crusade to stopping climate change was not at all true or was so utterly miniscule in the long run as to be meaningless

    then what?

    • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      This is a defeatist and authoritarian position that the rich and powerful want you to have. They want to feel like you can’t win, so that they vote behind you while you sit at home. Until eventually, they just dismantle democracy altogether and we go back to fiefdoms.

      There is clearly one party that is more in line with the goals of fighting climate change than the other. Vote for that group. Vote for that group twice a year.