Lol

Battling corruption is something that never stops the second people go to sleep it continues unabated. Its not a war you can win, its an endless battle.

Democracy is first about making demands and unless we want somebody telling politicians our needs on behalf of us (almost always a corporation or the wealthy trying to do this) just voting and then going to sleep is a recipe for corruption. Its how we got here.

You have to elect politicians AND make demands of them, else the squeaky billionaire gets the grease.

“They’re trying to stop people voting because voting doesn’t matter!” It doesn’t take much examination to realize how nonsensical “both sides” talking points are.

Like if you rationally examine things its clear voting does matter, just not as much as people are lead to believe.

Edit: as an analogy, voting is like the down payment on democracy. If you want real democracy you need strikes and organizing etc which is the bulk of the payments.

Anyone saying voting will fix nothing is lying. Anyone saying voting alone will fix anything is lying.

“Man if only there were some way to have known. Anyway, I personally saw a kid shitting in kitty litter at a shool. And by ‘personally saw’ I mean a professional liar told me this and I believed them because I always do.”

It doesn’t quite work like that. Nobody needs a “leftist alex jones” or an "ai swarm of leftist bots’ and in terms of tech and money you just can’t compete with right wing power. Lies are easier to fabricate than truths. Trust is easier to destroy than build.

We do need information networks that work and the left has a lot of people willing to volunteer, etc.

I honestly think just going door to door and asking people if there’s anything local people should know about and then compiling frequent concerns, or notable local stories into newsletters would be far more effective than anything else.

Local journalism. There’s no money in it at the moment but the work is not incredibly complicated.

There’s no “Big company left CEOs”. The megacorp model is inherently rightwing - democratizing workplaces makes it difficult for a single person to run a large company.

I feel so validated by this. The root cause of this though is capitalism.

But yeah we also need stricter laws about corporate speech and ownership and how to protect the public from these kind of schemes.

Did Iran kill Chuck Norris?