The greens are polling at the same number as labour, consistently for the past couple months. Labour is as unpopular as they’ve ever been.
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Sad thing is it works on a lot of naive young people.
Therapy tried to make me learn to live with my oppression.
IMO that can be oppressive in of itself.
(Not all therapy is like this obviously but that was my experience).
Personally I usually vote. Because I usually have welfare that if I didn’t have I wouldn’t be here much longer. So like for me voting feels life and death.
Even if I don’t see myself getting emancipated by vote. Hence I’m an anarchist. For me it’s more just survival. While 99% my political energy goes into prefiguration/direct action etc.
But I definitely also can understand people who won’t vote for the “less worse candidate”. If the less worse candidate has been bombing your family yeah no. No vote. Obviously.
But I do want to say, unless you philosophically reject all electoralism under the current system which is an arguable position I guess. Unless you do that, do at least vote primaries. That’s where we sometimes get better choices.
Don’t mistake them for emancipation. But it makes a hell of a lot of difference in, for example, many homeless people’s lives if buses are free and social housing is fast tracked and kitchens are well funded and police doesn’t harass for existing. It doesn’t save homeless people. The system put them where they are and the system must be dismantled. But it lets many of them survive a little longer.
Yes. That’s the easier solution.
The harder solution is maybe we shouldn’t have 9 people appointed by the most powerful person in the country for life have that much power. It’s not very democratic.
So what is it actually?
The worst part is this “tradition” came out of a medieval flex by aristocrats.
Look here, I have fertile soil I don’t grow anything on near my manor (aka lawn). That’s how well I’m doing. My peasents are only barely starving.
This is not just because of public education gutting. It’s a worldwide phenomenon, even in places with the highest ranked public schools on earth.
the simple truth is bombarding someone with a certain way of seeing the world makes them more likely to see the world that way. It’s propaganda, plain and simple.