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[โ€“] Tehdastehdas@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

We didn't design the bad systems in which we are forced to participate.

https://www.quora.com/Do-USA-citizens-deserve-better-candidates-than-Trump-and-Hillary/answer/Jay-Bazzinotti
(applies to any representative democracy)

[โ€“] Libb@piefed.social 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

We did not design it but we let them keep on screwing us, over and over.

It would barely be a caricature to say the EU politics for the Last 35 years has been a constant middle finger towards EU-citizens. And most of us saying something like 'well, not my problem'...

[โ€“] lemmeLurk@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

Make a new party for which the only policy point is to change the voting system.

Say "vote for us and we change the voting system and the immediately resign and make way for a new vote".

But the people don't want that, because they get played against each other.