Comment on How much of it is society is collapsing versus the daily on-goings of the ruling class was so obscure that they were easier to ignore?

• Tiresia@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  We have the liberties we have because average people in the past knew otherwise. Union workers, revolutionaries, mass political movements, terrorists, soldiers, and civil servants. If the system steers society towards collapse, we all have to change the system by the least violent means available, which is sometimes a violent civil war.

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  • Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yes but its not steering towards collapse.

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• MerryJaneDoe@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Then you’ve totally missed the point of freedom and democracy.

  Collectively, our leaders are very much “average” people. Some are super smart, others are ignorant and stupid. Some are great leaders, others are petty and vindictive. Some are well-educated, some are Majorie Taylor Greene.

  And let’s be clear - society isn’t collapsing. Freedom and prosperity are collapsing.

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  • Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m not saying not vote. I assumed the average person is voting for people to solve those problems. Then its those people who are focused on solving those problems. Average people focus on their own problems.

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