Comment on It's been downhill since 2020
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days agoBut the whole system is shit. Its designed to fuck you without your consent.
These things are not failures. They’re working as intended, and without a gun to its head, its always gonna do that shit.
hector@lemmy.today 6 days ago
I know the system works because it used to work.
queermunist@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
Work for whom?
hector@lemmy.today 6 days ago
Working people lived prosperous dignified lives and did make improvements to government regulating business, as incomplete as it may have been.
Reform is not mutually exclusive to our constitution, and indeed our current plutocracy and rising fascism is. The constitution is dishonored systematically by our system.
In fact with our existing laws we could break up all of these mega corps, and prosecute the worst like health insurance execs for one thing and another. Drug co execs need to be put in line.
We would need to reinstate and update some laws, and get a national healthcare program with new laws.
But we need a restoration to the laws we had, and addition to them, and most of all, enforcement of existing laws. Judiciary being bought and owned by plutocracy notwithstanding but a strong real populist could fix even that.
We just need leadership, someone that knows how to build and run a political machine. A thing antithetical to our corporate opposition party playing good cop to ruling party’s bad cop like it is 1990 still even as the ruling party is not playing bad cop so much as hitler. Achieving more of a mussolini but that is another story.
queermunist@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
The white ones did.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
It didn’t. That was colonial extraction, internal exploitation of women+poc, and compromising with communism while we still had a labor movememt and the threat of the ussr. It was an intermediate form forced on it by circumstance, it’s not sustainable, youre ignoring all the costs, and the system’s own incentives are what destroyed it. What will always destroy it.
And with global warming/climatepocalypse; we need to be doing better than that imagined bullshit rough-edges-sanded-off version of the 1950s anyway. which we can; why are you so hostile to the idea?