▲ 750 ▼ They'll come demanding our votes any day now (lemmy.world) submitted 4 months ago by K1nsey6@lemmy.world [M] to c/latestagecapitalism@lemmy.world 420 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] K1nsey6@lemmy.world [S] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child) buy a bit of time with the democrats James Baldwin, 1984 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Jhex@lemmy.world -2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child) What have Americans done during this time? To me, this is the problem... it's not "time"... it's that Americans seem to expect someone else will take the risk, pay the cost and do the hard work for them Currently every excuse Americans seem to put up revolves around the idea they will not act unless someone else provides them with a solution that is: risk free cost nothing immediately effective permanent solved ALL problems and corollaries will give them 100% of the credit Anything not marking ALL those boxes, they are not willing to do and would rather continue their (not-so) slow decline forever permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] K1nsey6@lemmy.world [S] 4 points 4 months ago Liberals do what liberals have always done. They want leftists to do the actual hard work, the grunt work to getting politicians off the ground and then they can ride our coattails as if they have supported us the entire time. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Jhex@lemmy.world -2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child) What have Americans done during this time? To me, this is the problem... it's not "time"... it's that Americans seem to expect someone else will take the risk, pay the cost and do the hard work for them Currently every excuse Americans seem to put up revolves around the idea they will not act unless someone else provides them with a solution that is: risk free cost nothing immediately effective permanent solved ALL problems and corollaries will give them 100% of the credit Anything not marking ALL those boxes, they are not willing to do and would rather continue their (not-so) slow decline forever permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] K1nsey6@lemmy.world [S] 4 points 4 months ago Liberals do what liberals have always done. They want leftists to do the actual hard work, the grunt work to getting politicians off the ground and then they can ride our coattails as if they have supported us the entire time. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] K1nsey6@lemmy.world [S] 4 points 4 months ago Liberals do what liberals have always done. They want leftists to do the actual hard work, the grunt work to getting politicians off the ground and then they can ride our coattails as if they have supported us the entire time. permalink fedilink source parent
