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It's easy to lay the blame on corporations, but where do the voters come into this? They are the ones that get politicians into office. Politicians are the ones
by Mirioron 6y ago
It's easy to lay the blame on corporations, but where do the voters come into this? They are the ones that get politicians into office. Politicians are the ones with the power to stop the war on drugs, yet they haven't. Should we say that people who vote for politicians that don't get rid of the war on drugs are using their vote to put innocent people in prison?
It just seems odd to me that the two groups of people that could put an end to the whole thing (voters and politicians) seem to be blame-free.
- bad_user 6y agoThis is whataboutism. Yes, ideally our elected politicians should solve this, but we don't live in a perfect world. So what can we do in a world led by imperfect people?
- Mirioron 6y agoThe elected officials are the cause of this problem. If they stopped funding the war on drugs then it would dissipate on its own.
- trophycase 6y agoPeople are too busy arguing about spanish speaking people and how vaginas should be allowed to be used to give a shit about the corporate surveillance state taking over the entire world. This is why identity politics is a wedge issue, call me privileged.
- staplers 6y ago“Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.” -Lucy Parsons (1878-1937)
- squarefoot 6y agoHow true, but good luck telling that to those who keep voting billionaries.
- TACIXAT 6y agoI largely feel that politicians answer to corporate interests, not citizens. As well, if both corporate parties do not want to end the war on drugs, you just vote for the one closer to your interests because voting for a third party is also a waste of a vote. Corporations are our modern lords. I'm not happy about this but they are very much who is running the show.