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The ones who fucked our country don’t want to admit they were wrong.

The party that’s been in charge of our country has been dismantling and selling everything worthwhile for over a decade, and the only viable alternative is running on “we don’t want to change anything major, but at least we’re not those guys”

I’m honestly worried about what we’ve become and how everything is just getting worse here. Nobody seems to have any hope for the future anymore, there are no positive things to look forward to, just a constant spiral of rising costs and declining health and public services.

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leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The UK political cycle:

Tories elected because they made people think Labour were bad with money

Tories stay in power for a couple of decades

Rich people get richer, public services get shitter, prices for everyone else get higher. They coast along on a tide of right-wing populism for awhile

Eventually people catch on, Tories get voted out

Labour need to spend a fortune getting things back on track. Might get two terms.

Go to 1.
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- clockwork_octopus@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  This is also the Canadian political cycle, it seems.
  
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  - jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    US as well!
    
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- andthenthreemore@startrek.website ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  This is why we desperately need PR to break the two party cycle.
  
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  - leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Definitely.
    
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- TheProtagonist@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I guess they are currently at step 2 or 3…
  
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  - andthenthreemore@startrek.website ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Steps 3, 4. If you have a look at the current polling.
    
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andyburke@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The sad truth is it will need to get much worse until conservatives will admit there is a problem and let progressives solve it.

It has always been this way. You either live in a progressive, upwardly moving state with improving quality of life or you get stuck in a conservative, stagnant or downward trending place where people are more concerned with "others" than they are with doing anything productive as a society. As a species, we seem to slowly wobble back and forth between these extremes. It's maddening.

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- Iamdanno@lemmynsfw.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It’s in our nature to destroy ourselves.
  
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