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> It's broken because our generation lacks the constitution (and possibly aptitude) to push for the changes necessary. If you mean Gen X or Y, that's just wro

by jnbiche 11y ago

> It's broken because our generation lacks the constitution (and possibly aptitude) to push for the changes necessary. If you mean Gen X or Y, that's just wrong. Those two generations basically got Obama elected in 2008 (who got out and canvassed, and ran his Internet campaign and much of his meatspace campaign, and voted), and look what happened: vontinued never-ending war, police brutality on the rise, drug war on the rise, continued mass incarceration and surveillance state, ridiculous Dem/Repub back and forth showmanship, and so forth. And please don't say we should have picked better in 2008. Who? Clinton? Biden? McCain/Palin? Anyone outside of the two parties has no chance, witness the party Sanders ran under this cycle. Could it be that we simply see the game is fixed, and simply no longer wish to participate in or implicitly support this system? > There has never been an easier place and time to than 2015 USA to enact the changes you want to see. Oh really? Well, such a pliable system sure has proved remarkably impervious to change.

kolbe 11y ago
Changes happen in the streets, not the ballot box. The fact that you think real change only takes place by choosing the "right" one of two (largely indistinguishable) major party candidates every four years is part of the problem. Change is hard. It takes dedication and sacrifice. It takes wit and cunning and luck. But we live in a country where if you go out and try to make those changes, you will not be arrested (for very long) or killed. Your family will not be tortured. In fact, when people do attempt to make changes, our country encourages them. There are very few places in the world where this can be said. And groups dedicated to making changes this way have altered the course of this country. The LGBT community is doing it right now. Racial minorities have done it in the past. Anti-war activists have done it. But they didn't do it from a place of comfort. It's very hard to make positive changes to society while climbing a corporate ladder. If you are too scared to disturb the comfort of your current life, and you think the ballot box is all you have control of, then you are the exact type of person I described in my original post. And it's not an insult to you. It's an insult to an entire generation.

by jnbiche 11y ago

kolbe 11y ago

Changes happen in the streets, not the ballot box. The fact that you think real change only takes place by choosing the "right" one of two (largely indistinguishable) major party candidates every four years is part of the problem. Change is hard. It takes dedication and sacrifice. It takes wit and cunning and luck. But we live in a country where if you go out and try to make those changes, you will not be arrested (for very long) or killed. Your family will not be tortured. In fact, when people do attempt to make changes, our country encourages them. There are very few places in the world where this can be said. And groups dedicated to making changes this way have altered the course of this country. The LGBT community is doing it right now. Racial minorities have done it in the past. Anti-war activists have done it. But they didn't do it from a place of comfort. It's very hard to make positive changes to society while climbing a corporate ladder. If you are too scared to disturb the comfort of your current life, and you think the ballot box is all you have control of, then you are the exact type of person I described in my original post. And it's not an insult to you. It's an insult to an entire generation.