• qarbone@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    For me, it’s the fact that they’re unwilling to adopt these (clearly winning) political policies. Instead, they’d rather just suppress them.

    We’ve seen this strategy from all of the megacorps already: smother the small company that refuses to be bought out and then, after they’ve died, pick out the most recognizible bone from the corpse to parade around, despite the fact that the bone carries next to none of the meat people wanted.

    The problem is that the US political commission is framed as an electoral mandate to rule, instead of citizens electing someone based on their (perceived) ability to read their constituents’ wants. So most establishment politicians when faced with criticism act like “you crowned me king, so why are you complaining?” instead of thinking “okay, either I’ve misunderstood what you wanted me to do here or I’m not explaining how what I’m doing serves what you want.”

    At best, we get pacification, and hardly ever reconcilliation.