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That reads a little bit like victim-blaming, because the worship of billionaires only applies to one segment of the working poor. Another big part of the problem is billionaires corrupting the political system to the point where whoever gets elected immediately gets love-bombed by the richest people in the world who promise them a share of the loot. Convincing people that voting "for the other guy" won't solve the systemic problems of our political systems is a tremendously difficult job and the billionaires and their bought lackeys know this.

"As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master."

-Commissioner Pravin Lal, 'U.N. Declaration of Rights'

Difficult to not vote against your own interests when there are only two viable parties and both are owned by the rich.

I think this take misunderstands the political reality: in the U.S. we have what could charitably be called a flawed democracy. Just because laws are passed or policies enacted doesn't mean there is majority support.

The house of representatives is elected under rules which are determined state by state. Many states have gerrymandered districts, which is just legal cheating.

Each state receives two senators, regardless of population. Places like North and South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, each get two senators even though they have smaller populations that individual cities in other states.

The president is selected by the electoral college, not the popular vote.

Supreme Court justices are appointed for life - random chance of when they die determines how many justices one party or the other gets to appoint (before we get to Republicans cheating Democrats out of an appointment).

All of which sounds and is grim, but I take a little encouragement from the fact that the majority of Americans do support many reasonable policies and improvements.

Oh, laws were broken.

what's up with the victim blaming?

you expect me to believe that every American poor person voted in support of fascism?

there's a lot of evidence to suggest Kamala Harris would have won the election if not for vote manipulation, meaning Trump stole the election, meaning people didn't vote for him.

..and you're blaming voters for wealth inequality? get fucked buddy.

"If they didn't want it, they shouldn't have dressed that way." Yeah, no.

One empire to collapse, but for another few to rise to fill the void it leaves.

And those few are not so much more merciful. I'm trying to imagine what the world would look like if it's only Russia and China on top, while the US implodes like the Balkans.

Same goes for almost every other western country

Make no mistake about it: this is ENTIRELY because of religion, which allows the rich to fool the lower classes into hating groups that the magical books say are bad.

Sadly, if Democrats were a party in favor of workers and benefits and also gave angry speeches saying how gays and trans people were going to an evil afterworld of torture, the world wouldn't be like this. The bulk of the lowest classes of society are not only scientifically illiterate, they are prejudiced, idiotic, and cruel. They deserve what they fucking get for their religious idiocy.

The problem is that there are good decent middle class people and some lower class people who don't believe in fairy tale garbage religious myths and THEY are the ones that get massively fucked by this voting block of the ultra wealthy and ultra stupid, and since that voting block is over 60 percent, and the psychopathic upper classes won't change and the lower classes won't stop being stupid, political mobilization sadly will continue to not work until something like market collapse, environmental collapse, or some sort of destructive force changes things.

Even among the 40 percent of people not in that block of idiots and upper elites, there is still a large part that is religious and can't name the enemy: it's religion, it's idiocy, it's the psychopathic upper classes, and this moderate group of complacent people will doom us all.

There's not really a good solution to the problem. Education doesn't work on the religious, it just creates a group of people who can't think critically and can claim to be educated. Violence won't work when only 20 percent of society is willing to act and a large part of the religious 50 percent is armed and part of the police apparatus in society. The only thing that will change this is technology that somehow destroys or creates poverty specifically for the religious ignorant classes while passing over those who understand science and technology.

It's hard to even blame the upper classes for exploiting the lowest classes when they are so stupid and unwilling to learn basic scientific thinking. Everyone religious is delusional and going to collectively destroy the planet.