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No, this is illusion of apathy, believing you are powerless is what actually makes you powerless. Larger changes have happened within American society that in r
by yownie 5y ago
No, this is illusion of apathy, believing you are powerless is what actually makes you powerless. Larger changes have happened within American society that in retrospect seem obvious to everyone.
- sneak 5y agoThere are many systems in which believing you are powerless leads to your own powerlessness. Not voting in an authoritarian military dictatorship masquerading as a democracy is not one such instance, unfortunately. There is no sufficient loudness of "wake up, sheeple!" that will get the US military to stop waging war (the continuation of which is entirely contrary to the will of the US people). It is an autonomous organization, unaccountable to any branch of the US government, as evidenced over and over again by the lack of resistance to it in the USG, and the lack of consequences for its members when it breaks the law. The CIA got busted lying to Congress about hacking into Congressional computers to delete evidence of the CIA's torture program. The torture program continues, and nobody is in jail.