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return2ozma@lemmy.world to Political Memes@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

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return2ozma@lemmy.world to Political Memes@lemmy.world · 1 year ago
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    It’s not really about how politics work. It is about how human minds work. The fact that making empty promises and then excuses is more effective than being honest shows one of the reasons why democracy isn’t a good system (although it may currently be the least bad).

    And just accepting the lies probably makes it worse.

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      You might as well just not vote at all because not a single president will ever keep every campaign promise they make. Ever. You don’t have to like it but that’s reality and the only reason to be mad about it for one specific candidate over another is personal bias.

      Obviously everyone should vote but unless you’re new to all of this you should already know to pick your battles. If campaign promises weren’t kept you should research it and know why before you complain about it.

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        Who says I am mad about it for one specific candidate? That is your bias showing there mate.

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      Excuses like roughly half of Americans oppose it and are shitheads?

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        https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/11/22/americans-overwhelmingly-say-marijuana-should-be-legal-for-medical-or-recreational-use/

        88% support legalization of marijuana, hell if you expand that to all drugs, 55% still support the decriminalization of all drugs

        https://www.cato.org/blog/poll-55-americans-favor-decriminalizing-drugs

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        Only half are shitheads? (suprised pikachu)

        On a more serious note: That would be a very good excuse if that wasn’t obvious already when he was making promises.

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          If his campaign promises had been worded as “we’ll try to do blank”, people would have criticized that, too.

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            Yeah, by dumb people. Sad state of events that the whole society is now being built around appeasing dumb people.

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              Appeasing dumb people isn’t a new thing.

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                Mistreating vulnerable people isn’t either.

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