Despite research having shown that our vote has virtually no effect on outcomes, many still want to believe.
this post was submitted on 06 Sep 2026
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I want to believe poster but the UFO is a mail in ballot box.
Here's a slop version. Sorry for slop.
LMAO yes!
Yanks have get to choose freely between two child-killing parties. The world's most expansive propaganda apparatus tells them that this is the only way you can conceivably do politics and encourages the public to root for their preferred child-killers like if it was a sports team. People are told that their preferred child-killers are going to solve all of the social problems they experience whole simultaneously being the only thing that can stop the other child-killers who would end human civilization if they had the chance (though their child-killing is OK).
Consequently, a sizable part of the yank population enthusiastically support either of the child-killing parties while another sizably part of the population seems disinterested in taking part in pick-your-child-killer politics at all.
Are the yank population, who voted for child-killers, responsible when children gets killed? Yes. But the real culprits are, as always, the bourgeoisie who has set up this system of child-killing.
I thought the real culprits were the yanks that decided not to vote
POV: "Vote blue no matter who" crowd when their "Blue" candidate votes for war.
As much as I hate Dilbert's creator, he got something right with the joke where you always have to give your boss 2 choices - one that you already chose beforehand, and another that's only there for the boss to reject so they think they contributed.
they want to have their cake and eat it too
More like they want to have their cake and sell it too
And yet their vote means nothing.
Not.
Democracy: Greek, dēmos krátos, 'people' 'rule' or rule of the people.
The people do not rule in the US so it's not a democracy.
It's hard to define what the US is. It has some democratic elements. The people are allowed to elect representatives, both at the state and Federal level, and many people are allowed to vote directly for or against certain measures through ballot initiatives at the state level, although this varies from state to state. However, our Federal representatives in the House each represent well over 700,000 people. That is a very large number of people, especially compared to most other democracies. And because we have a winner-take-all system, people who did not vote for the winning candidate may feel underrepresented or not represented at all.
I think the classification that best fits the US is Plutocracy: ploûtos krátos, 'wealth' 'rule' or rule of the wealthy. Not only do the wealthiest have a significant amount of money to invest in political causes, lobbying representatives and directly influencing elections, but they also often have significant private corporate ownership interests and control, giving them a great deal of power over the economy and access to critical resources. Even democratically elected representatives tend to be quite wealthy, or at least much wealthier than the average American voter. And even if they don't start out much wealthier, they often end up much wealthier after their time in office.
It's SUPPOSED to be a democratic republic where the elected leaders vote the way their constituents would want.
But you're right it's more like a plutocracy in reality at this point
not at this point, it is the same as it always was
Yeah, the majority of voters are.
It is a flawed Democracy. Lobbying money corrupts the government.
It's neither flawed nor corrupted. It's working as intended, it's just it was never intended to work for your benefit.
The purpose of a system is what it does.
The flaws are by design
It's quite literally not a democracy.
Is not even really a republic, but that is what is supposed to be. The problem is that elected representatives don't represent the people. The system is horridly corrupted at this point.
Binary system is not democracy.
In a world where rich and powerful steer the governance, it's a slide down to the worst outcome.
One side is bad, the other is less bad. But people aren't doing anything to remove the bad because they think they'll choose less bad next time. But the next time, bad side has become worse, the less bad is less worse because why would they try, when they can guilt trip you?
Rinse and repeat.
And in a country where ~~corruption~~ lobbying is legal, you never had any say in the first place.