It's easy to say that but I find this is a viewpoint used mainly to absolve the bourgeois of their agency in creating the current issues in America. If we cared about climate change and racism people wouldn't vote for climate change deniers and racists no matter how much money corporations throw to politicians. That's just a fact. Politicians can only do what voters allow them to.
No it's not a fact. The corporations and politicians work together, paying each other off, looking the other way, ultimately with the intent for a singular goal of dividing people. They want us to blame each other, pointing fingers at people who ultimately just want to live a regular life. What this does is take our attention from the real perpetrators.
They want us to blame each other, pointing fingers at people who ultimately just want to live a regular life.
This is just so... Ugh... Why is it that everything in American politics is based in the root thought that "real Americans" (aka white people) are innocent. No matter what policies they support, no matter who they vote for, no matter how other groups that don't have the same obvious motivations as them (aka the motivation to uphold white supremacy) vote. Blame corporations that don't have any direct power, but let's not blame the voters putting these people in office.
You’re absolutely out of touch if you don’t think corporations have any real power lmao. The rich run the world. Shit, Epstein was running an international pedo ring, and was murdered.
They have the power we give them as a society and no more or less. Corporations couldn't buy politicians if every time politicians passed something to help them out voters voted in other politicians that didn't. You can believe some evil cabal is doing all the damage if you want. It's easier to do that than to realize most everyone you know is complacent in the destruction of american society and will continue to do so because they really don't care at the end of the day.
Epstein is actually a good example. Our president is heavily tied to him. Our Attorney General's father gave him a job at a highschool. People voted Trump into office which is why they even had the power to kill Epstein easily. Without the support of the people they couldn't have killed him like they did.
The problem is people like you pretending the enemy is a corporation because it gives you a valid excuse for why you're not doing more personally and why everyone isn't doing more personally. Keep pretending voters don't hold power though. That's a great way to fix the issue!
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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '19
lol ok no, not even close