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What else is one to do?
by badRNG 5y ago
What else is one to do?
- HarryHirsch 5y agoTake to the streets, like the French do?
- SiempreViernes 5y agoActually, the French mostly stay at home: the last gubernatorial elections had like 34% participation.
- permo-w 5y agoThey mean strikes, and protests
- OriginalNebula 5y agoIn the second round of the 2017 presidential election there was 65.3% turnout. In the 2020 US presidential election there was 66.8% turnout.
- tux3 5y agoThe primary tool we use to exerce Democracy is not so much the vote anymore, it is protests on specific issues. Votes are too diluted, and there is no accountability for campaign promises. Le référendum, c'est Place de la Bastille!
- mgarfias 5y agoI’d vote for swinging politicians from lamp posts, but were not allowed to do that.
- dekhn 5y agoIf your question is truly serious, the answer is: nothing. It's almost certainly impossible to fix the US healthcare system given the enormous number of people who profit so much from its current dysfunction. Unless there is some sort of major disruption that completely changes the landscape (very unlikely), you can expect pharma in the US to be extremely expensive.
- shadowgovt 5y agoThat's bad news, because when the answer is "nothing," people don't do nothing. They instead resort to the language of the unheard.
- dekhn 5y agoit will be interesting to see how health care evolves in the US, to say the least.
- bruiseralmighty 5y agoAbout Insulin? Look for ways to make the patents unenforceable. If diabetics had the ability to make their own safe insulin at home that would be best. Then all they would need is an internet connection and some basic components. The closer we get to that ideal the more empowered they are. This would actually solve a lot of price gouging for drugs. However that's only a stop gap measure. What's happening with gating access to insulin is happening to a thousand other products in a thousand other industries right now. Start looking at alternative governance structures. Lord knows everyones got a blog and a half-assed plan to run things better at this point (since the bar is so low). Just don't poke the bear. As cathartic as hanging 'congresscritters' would be it wont actually solve the problem. Basically act like you don't expect anyone else to fix this problem for you because nobody is going to; especially if you voted for them.