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SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 1 day agoImprovements in human rights never come from peaceful protest.
The history of the US is slaves vs property owners. And the only leverage the slaves have ever had is numbers and orginized violence.
kreskin@lemmy.world 1 day ago
We badly need to evolve our idea of democracy to allow for it to work when the rich and corrupt self interests try to control it. the US system isnt safe against those influences so it seems doomed to fail in its current form.
We cant just wait for benevolent strongmen like FDR (Roosevelt) to come along periodically and right the ship, followed by many decades of compounding corrupution. We were lucky to get Roosevelt and have the legacy of his influence last as long as we have. I’d guess that whats left of the new deal will be badly mauled or done away with by the end of trumps term, assuming we are even still a country with 50 states, which isnt looking promising. So its time to start thinking now about whats next.