• DarkCloud@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Not even, it’s just corruption getting too stable ultimately results in voter instability - as people are enticed to vote for ANYTHING BUT business as usual.

    This means Obama’s Hope And Change is just as likely to be voted for as Trump’s “Grab them by the Pussy” because they equally appear to be offering a shift from the norms of the Capo-democratic swamp.

    Meanwhile they’re both actually unfettered “too big to fail” Capitalism, with all its “make the rich richer, corrupt democracy further” aspects intact.

    So Capitalism creates its own threat, and hence marches on oscillating democracy to its own needs like the perfect parasite.

    The parasite won’t give you what you want. The corrupt won’t volunteer to end corruption. You have to smash the windows grab the parasite and squeeze the life out of it before you can issue genuine ideological reforms and take back a fairer system.

    Sometimes violence is what’s necessary. The “slow fix” of democracy only works when the right radical candidates have the right free hand to make the right radical changes, and corruption tends to prevent that.

    I suppose this is a “tough time” but it’s caused by moderate Neo-Liberal freemarket and often nominally democratic Capitalists.

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      7 days ago

      What is the idea of a “fix” in your opinion? You didn’t really state a goal but did explain problems well. Because if it’s just a “nicer” form of capitalism that continues to burn the global South but gives healthcare to the imperial core, well, that’s not a considered a “fix” at all to a lot of us.