• wildginger
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    1 year ago

    Do you think that the average person is getting directly involved in their local political scene?

    Do you think people who are willing to engage with their local politics need to hear one last encouragement from a lemmy comment to finally push them over the fence?

    Or do you think that the people who are informed and motivated enough to be involved already are doing that?

    And that maybe, as a public forum, the actual best thing to be doing is making these ideas commonplace for the average person using that forum, so that when they see those ideas being advocated by someone running for office they will be familiar with the concepts and more willing to consider that person as a serious politician?

    Or do you think maybe you know all this, and are just bitching because you want violence?

    • TheFonz@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I think we need to do less grandstanding about how bad capitalism is and more encouraging people to participate in local elections and politics. I don’t want violence at all.