• Obinice@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Is this any surprise? The rich won’t allow any politician, let alone major political party of them, grow to any real level of power unless they are aligned with their interests.

    Politician refuses to side with the rich? Well then, they’ll find their funding dry up, their message not getting out in the news, or any online media algorithms, with their more rich-friendly competitors receiving all that support, until their path to any real political office is dead.

    By the time any political candidates or party get to run the actual country, we can assume they’re in the pocket of the rich ruling class (and often are members of that class).

    So, why then is it surprising that the government and their various lackeys are doing what they can do protect the interests of the rich, to the detriment of the rest of us?

    The system is completely broken from its very core.

    I don’t have a solution to suggest, I wish I did, but while I do still vote, it’s clear that voting makes very little difference in the end - it just lets us pick which colour scheme we prefer, where we want small amounts of the budget shuffled around to (to make it look like they’re actually doing something), and which version of rhetoric we want shoved down our throats for a few years while what they actually do is work to protect and empower the rich.

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      4 months ago

      Yes they do but voting does matter because if we vote into such a way that the rich don’t like they can’t do anything about it they’ve already lost. I get so sick of this, “they are all the same” attitude, because firstly that’s demonstrably untrue, and secondly even if it was true boating indicates a direction the public wants the government to go in and that’s useful.