• mechoman444@lemmy.world
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    Ladies and gentlemen, you must understand that the problem is far more severe than many believe. For many voters, this is not a matter of choosing a better candidate. Most of the time, they do not know who they are voting for, or why. They vote by party alone: Republican or Democrat.

    The ballot is divided along party lines, and they simply proceed down the list, checking every box for their chosen party.

    They fail to comprehend that they are voting for individuals who act against their own interests. They assume that new Republicans are better than the old ones, without evidence or understanding. This is a profoundly failed system, and its dysfunction is self-evident

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      A massive factor in this schism has to do with our sudden isolation from each other and our abandonment of communities and socialization. Somewhere along the line, the minority of internet shut-ins became most people. Covid didn’t help with that, it cemented isolationism as a viable alternative to going out and feeling uncomfortable around other people with different views.

      As a result, there’s no social pressure to be involved, to have knowledge about what’s going on in the world, no pressure to have educated opinions on society or the future. You can just have your own wacko, nutcase conspiracy-brain take to explain why you’re lonely and keep it to yourself and your small discord group or forum of like-minded shut-ins, each thinking they’re connected to others but they’re just reading their own text on screens.

      This was leveraged HARD by specific forces to indoctrinate young men to the right. The relationship between straight men and women has been compromised on a very deep and insidious level, too many outside and inside influences created too much sensationalism around debating gender and our differences rather than how we can be happy and find joy in each other. This has led to incel-dom becoming a dominant kind of background philosophical framework for millions and millions of young men around the entire world.

      Fascism has always been built on the back of sexually insecure young men. History is a flat circle. Awwshitsonherewegoagain.jpg