Jon Stewart mocked both President Biden and former President Trump during his return to “The Daily Show,” saying both 2024 candidates are “stretching the limits of being able to h…
This belies the fact that there is a TON of work being done, constantly, by organizers at all levels. The problem is that you cannot out-raise party-aligned Super PACs with grassroots, individual funding. You can’t reach a wider audience with door-to-door campaigning, than a Super PAC can with TV and internet ads. You can’t meet the primary debate requirements set by the parties (when they don’t just not hold debates altogether), when the parties are intentionally making those requirements impossible for grassroots campaigns to meet.
Our political system is set up to discourage political engagement. Organizing takes time, money, community, and civic-mindedness, and our society is set up to sap all of those away from the average person. You’re basically just blaming the people who are overcoming those barriers, to organize and be politically-engaged, for the fact it’s impossible for them to singlehandledly overcome the political apathy that the system is built to propagate.
All of your concerns are fixed when everyone pays attention for more than one out of every four years. Until that happens…
That will never happen, because as I said, our political system does not want that to happen, and works to make sure it doesn’t. So what you’re really saying is, “don’t ever push for change within the party itself, just toe the party line”.
You have no clue whether someone online who is complaining is in fact only engaging in politics “one year out of every four”, so this is just showcasing your own assumptions.
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From my other comment:
Our political system is set up to discourage political engagement. Organizing takes time, money, community, and civic-mindedness, and our society is set up to sap all of those away from the average person. You’re basically just blaming the people who are overcoming those barriers, to organize and be politically-engaged, for the fact it’s impossible for them to singlehandledly overcome the political apathy that the system is built to propagate.
That will never happen, because as I said, our political system does not want that to happen, and works to make sure it doesn’t. So what you’re really saying is, “don’t ever push for change within the party itself, just toe the party line”.
No thanks.
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You have no clue whether someone online who is complaining is in fact only engaging in politics “one year out of every four”, so this is just showcasing your own assumptions.
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