How would people not lose faith in a perverted form of democracy, where pretty much all you can vote for are different collections of lying self serving bastards employed by the ultra rich in order to fuck over ordinary people for their profits?
That’s bullshit. There are plenty non-corrupt parties on the ballot. It’s just that voters willingly vote for the “collections of lying self serving bastards employed by the ultra rich”. Turns out you can’t vote for murdering migrants at the border without getting morally bankrupt bastards in the government.
They start out non corrupt due to lack of opportunity. As soon as they gain power, they will become increasingly corrupted. The nature of politics strongly favours ruthless careerists, and in the end that leads to the large and powerful parties mostly consisting of people who would sell their own grandmother for personal profit.
This is unnecessary doomerism IMO. There are plenty of parties and politicians out there willing to make a difference.
I don’t buy that they are “willing” anymore. I’ve been lied to and betrayed by far too many politicians on every governmental level, and from all kinds of different parties, and as long as they face exactly zero consequences for essentially defrauding their voters, this won’t change.
just wait until your country willfully cedes power to a fascist dictator…
inb4 “it’ll never happen,” etc
that’s exactly what everyone in the states said
Farrage is already peddling the project 2025 playbook and the morons that vote for him are lapping it up.
at least those morons don’t have a special room dedicated to their assault weapons, the way the ones in america do
They are losing faith in the current system certainly. Corpoganda can easily convince them that they’re dissatisfied with the only redeemable aspect of the status quo
The current system has some fatal flaws: It is reliably and repeatedly failing at holding politicians accountable for their actions and forcing them to actually do what they promised before the election. It also strongly favours parties and politicians backed by people and corporations with deep pockets.
Unless there is accountability, the system will ultimately fail. Unfortunately, those who could introduce such accountability, are exactly the same people who greatly profit from there being none.
People are not exerting enough of their political will in a material way. All this energy we (myself included) put into having these perfect little opinions on the internet should really be directed at in-person protests, organising, and demanding better. Really shouting in faces type of stuff. That’s what’s up.