@cemedia nah, you have to follow it back a step:
The problem is that the country votes to put those people in charge.
This is not just pedantic, it points to the solution. If you want change you have to engage with the people around you to convince them to use their votes in a different way.
@YourShadowDani You're talking in the abstract, but I'm talking in the substance here.
We are still recognizing voting. The people coming to power are coming to power based on votes. They aren't seizing power, the people standing next to you in line at the grocery store are voluntarily choosing to use their votes to put these people in power.
So if you don't like their choices, engage with them, talk to them about why they should use their votes differently.
That is where we are right now. We don't need to jump into this post-voter concept because right now in the real world we are still respecting voting.
@ReggieHere exactly!
So the way to stop them from coming to power is to engage with that minority of people. If it's a minority of people, it makes it even easier because there are fewer people that you have to convince.
It's a heavily gamed democracy? Great! That means the rules of the game stand, and gaming the rules can help change the course of power.
This is the point.
@volkris @YourShadowDani @cemedia
I see your point, but even if that minority could be convinced beyond the reach of countermeasures imposed by the Facebook algorithm, there would still be no alternative to neoliberalism to vote for because those are the only parties available......and even if alternatives did exist they'd only be corrupted and enlisted to the neoliberal cause once in office (see UK Labour).
@volkris @YourShadowDani @cemedia
The people coming to power are coming to power based on the votes of a minority of people voting for the least bad of the exclusively neoliberal options available.
People in China vote for their preferred communist candidates, while in the West we vote for our preferred neoliberal candidates. Both are heavily gamed democracies.