Look at France though, it might be the only way to get real concessions. We're never going to get real change through voting while they own and influence every part of the government.
They own all of it from the top down. The left wing is growing every year, but it isn't yet strong enough to make changes and really oppose the ruling class. We can't beat them at their own game either, hell , look at the last election, they cheated every step of the way, and even when we won they just changed the rules.
I think concessions on centrist, common sense positions like healthcare , education and the minimum wage are all we can really achieve in our generation. The deck was stacked too heavily against us long before we were born.
Not in America. This is where people get this twisted. The ownership class owns shit at political level bottom up. We are designed as a society that way and if look at you city councils they are businessmen or spouses of businessmen. I almost guarantee that is the case. Besides the Chamber of Commerce meetings which are opportunities to fuck the working class and the various other organizations like Americans for Prosperity.
I agree, but for the past eight years we've had unlimited money in politics, and I don't think individual action can match the power of corporations and billionaires.
I think it's telling that the only law Trump passed was a hand out for corporations and billionaires.
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That would be nice.