@Onthebass which half is that? The half that didn't vote? Otherwise, I think you more accurately mean 'one of the quarters' of the population.
@Onthebass I think it's note-worthy that half of the population doesn't believe in the legitimacy of voting as we are allowed to vote.
I also find it curious why we think that in 235 years we cannot perhaps make a better founding document that isn't drafted by white supremacists for white supremacists. It took a long time for 'man' to mean all white men, and not just land-owning white men, and even longer for it to include women, and non-white men.
Why do we revere these documents so much, when they were never intended to give us privilege or freedom?
You are absolutely right! But most constitutions are made hard to change.
As a Dane I was just 5 years old when the constitution was changed, back in the 50'th. Anyway the orange monster will do anything to change your law sets to his own benefits and maybe for Elon Musk too.
@Onthebass if the majority of us want to rewrite the constitution and create a new constitution and stop listening or referencing or using the old constitution, we can.
@Cyates2310 by getting beyond our differences and working together as community and not seeing ourselves as individuals.
@Cyates2310 most of us only do that when others talk to us about it.
The steps necessary for organization are agitation, education, and inoculation.
It is only after we're educated and no longer afraid of organizing that we will organize.
@Cyates2310 the trick with 'education' is it simply isn't pointing at data that supports your thing and telling someone they are stupid if they don't do it.
Education is the step after agitation -- agitation is getting them to ask questions, and education is helping to answer their questions. Education is not telling them what you want them to hear; that's a variant of agitation.
@Cyates2310 if you believe that, then I understand your hopelessness.
They spend billions annually to keep us stuck in the bubbles that are telling us there is one choice, two teams, and the other team wants to kill our team.
@Cyates2310 if it were impossible to break from our bubbles, they would not spend the resources they do keeping us in them is what I am saying.
@Cyates2310 the billionaires do not want you to have hope.
@Cyates2310 they don't always. They did this evolutionary cycle. In many other cycles we brained the bastards that were trying to hoard resources.
They are currently winning, but there is 3,000 of them, and 8,000,000,000 of us.
@Cyates2310 you will have the biggest impact working locally, finding a volunteer / mutual aid program to join could help you meet others to share the burden with.
@Cyates2310 they want us ignorant and converting our time into profits for them.
@Cyates2310 it is really difficult to stay informed when a solid 90% of our information is misinformation.
@Cyates2310 that is why you agitate, educate, and inoculate (against fear).
Inoculation is not easy. Looks pretty scary out there to me, too.
But the more of us that find each other, we become too many nails to nail down.
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