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- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
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I do not believe any political party will ever be on my side.
They could be, but not with a two party system. We need proportional representation so smaller parties can actually exist in government.
I don’t think a group of more than about 20 people could be on my side. Though I’ve been kicked out of groups smaller than that so maybe not even then.
Sounds like you need to start a militia and go doom-prep in the woods, then. The political process just isn't right for you.
Only if my militia is woodland creatures.
Sounds like they'd get kicked out of that, too.
So support people instead. Just because those parties are full of people doesn't mean you have to go all in if you support a few of them.
The process is what we have, and we're not going to make it better by refusing to participate in it. At best we'd make things worse and it collapses... and it gets a lot worse. Then maybe we can replace it with something better. If someone worse doesn't get there first.
Don't let perfect be the enemy of good-enough-for-now, especially if it means millions are going to suffer for the inaction.
That's what an independent is. When I registered to vote 50 years ago this year, I declined to register with a party, and I still haven't. I despise both parties, I think they are both anti-Democracy, but I'll never vote MAGA, and probably not even Republican, until they sincerely reform, and apologize.
That doesn't mean I'm a Democrat, I hate them nearly as much. I support individual people whom I trust, like AOC and Max Frost. Sometimes it goes awry - I was a supporter of Eric Swallwell, until it turned out he was serial rapist, but at least I'm not blindly following an entire party of people like him.
Things will get worse and eventually collapse and millions will suffer regardless of my actions. Entropy is a bitch and life is suffering.
And perfect isn’t fighting good. Less bad is fighting worse bad.