• BigTrout75@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Love the idea. But like free college and free healthcare I’m thinking it’s just wishful thinking.

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      8 months ago

      Amazing how so many people have been tricked into thinking these ideas are impossible. It’s really not crazy at all.

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        8 months ago

        Oh I think it’s possible, but considering our useless government and the obstructionists we all know, utterly impossible.

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          8 months ago

          I think it’s less useless government and more brainwashed citizens voting against their best interests. The useless government didn’t elect itself after all.

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          …I think it’s possible, but…utterly impossible.

          So you don’t think it’s possible? Have you tried to do something, and have come to that conclusion because no matter what you do, nothing seems to be changing?

          I’m not focusing on you specifically, but why people say things are “impossible “ and then you ask what, if anything, they’ve done, people will say nothing (or won’t even vote!).

          You don’t need to devote your life to something you want to change…an hour or two a week. Join an advocacy group. Go to a town hall meeting. Call your congressman. If time is something you really have ZERO of, then donate so that other people can spend more time working the change you want to see happen.

          “It’s impossible to change anything, so I’m not even gonna try”. Again, not saying this is you. I hear this “argument” so friggin often. It’s like people try and subconsciously excuse their own inaction and apathy.

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            7 months ago

            When I said “I think it’s possible” it was within the context of being able to maintain production, and economic output. Productivity per worker has increased between 30-50% within the last 40 or so years.

            When I said “utterly impossible” It was in regards to corporation control and influence in the government, as well as corporation sympathy with republicans. Considering they are obstructionists that will even deadlock mutually beneficial laws and acts, they would 100% kill something they actually oppose.

            Even with most Americans in support of Roe vs Wade, that was shut down.

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      8 months ago

      Coming from Germany where both of this is normal it’s pretty crazy to me that this is seen as some kind of socialist utopia.

      Admittedly there are a lot of problems in that country as well but the root of them is imo not in free education & healthcare.

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      8 months ago

      many of the thoughts to better people’s lives in the past became the reality we live today, we just have to persist and move forward

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      8 months ago

      Needs support. Not just from congress but from voters contacting their elected representatives. Zoomers and Millenials can complain all they want about Congress being out of touch, but if you’re over 18 Then fucking vote, not just in presidential elections but midterms and local/state elections. The country isn’t going to change to fit what young dreamers want it to be if the only people who vote enmass are the older generations that want it to stay the same.