Assuming there’s nothing stopping you from legally voting

  • Kangy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 months ago

    I’m from the UK, I don’t vote simply because I don’t trust the shit politicians come out with during election periods and because of this I worry I will vote the wrong way. Time and time again promises are made and you never really seem to see the difference.

    For example, and please correct me if I’m wrong, but it’s been promised since Brexit more money will go into the NHS to release the pressure on the service. Yet the NHS seems to be in the worst condition currently it’s ever been in.

    • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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      5 months ago

      The NHS is bad by design. You can’t convert a great system to whatever the shit is in the US that makes. Avery select few people very rich. You first need to break it down by pulling money out of it, pull more money out of it, more still, then when it starts breaking down, complain about how badly it works and propose this wonderful new system that will fix all of that! Privatize everything and then move to whatever shit they have in the US and get rich

        • sfxrlz@lemmy.world
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          5 months ago

          Or… anywhere else. Privatization of public transport or postal services is such a good idea.

        • craftyindividual@lemm.ee
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          5 months ago

          Our railways are fucked, our healthcare system is hanging by a thread. I’m so grateful for NHS care and investigations in the last year - dread to think how much Americans would have to pay to find out they have a shitty disease, let alone treat it.