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Political action is much more than just voting and it's been the major source of social changes in the last 200 years.
by eeZah7Ux 8y ago
Political action is much more than just voting and it's been the major source of social changes in the last 200 years.
- pdimitar 8y agoNot where I live, but I am aware that's not representative for the entire world. I am happy for the places where it works. Not sarcastic.
- yread 8y agoUh, you live in a place without weekends, women's voting rights or laws against child labour?
- pdimitar 8y agoI live in Eastern Europe, where drastic social changes only happen if the politicians see a crowd with pitchworks and torches at the town hall. Literally. People around here are just realists because no significant changes ever comes before people get that fed up. Civil discourse and constructive discussion has so far netted us nothing but dossiers and people landing on dissident lists. This happens to this day. No need to be snarky.
- yread 8y ago> pitchforks at the town hall Hey, do you live in Prague https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestrations_of_Prague https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestrations_of_Prague ? Don't let the czech mentality get to you, people there complain just for fun.
- pdimitar 8y agoBulgaria. :) It's easy to write us off Eastern Europeans as "complaining just for fun" though. Many do but when you get to the bottom of it, real change happens extremely rare. And that's a valid argument and a historical background to have. But regular-complainers and realistic-no-BS-folk often get conflated by external observers -- to my despair.
- kiliantics 8y agoYes, everyone seems to forget how those social changes were brought about: large unionised workforces that threatened strikes that would topple the economy, or mass protests and civil disobedience on similarly threatening scales. Of course, it's much nicer for those in power to have us believe that voting is all you need.