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daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

And what if what you try to accomplish or the way you try to do it is not the way they want it done?

A common problem with the left movements these days is that they put more effort in convincing that in listening, because everyone who becomes politically active automatically thinks they know better than everyone else.

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BussyCat@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Then you don’t get elected…

What I find funny is I have the exact opposite opinion that the left spends more time trying to appeal to voters than actually communicate what they are trying to do. So we end up with things like 250B to boost American manufacturing that got completely ignored

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- daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Maybe no political party should have more than 5% of the votes. The fact that 50% of the population could agree on all issues doesn’t feel possible to me.
  
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Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

people who learn about politics think they know more about politics

Yeah no shit

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- daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Why you change my words?
  
  Anyway, they think they know, but they don’t. They don’t know better than anyone else, due the nature of politics their opinion on matters should not have any more weight than the common folk, that’s why we chose democracy as a form of government anyway. If we do not believe in the fact that everyone opinion matter the samy I don’t know why would we pretend it does, let’s stablish an aristocracy and be done with it.
  
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  - Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Everyone’s opinions don’t matter the same. If I take the time and energy to understand a topic, my opinion has more weight than Joe Schmo who looked it up on Facebook. As Isaac Asimov said:
    
    Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’
    
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    daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    We are not talking about science, we are talking about politics.
    
    In science you can study gravity and then your opinion on how gravity works os more important than the opinion of someone who hasn’t study gravity.
    
    But we are talking about politics, politics is about what people want with their lives. And no matter what have you studied or how much have you studied. The biggest authority on someone’s life it’s always going to be that one person.
    
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