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Because people take the easy way out. They keep their head down and repeat a few lines they heard Hasan say in between piss breaks where he plays someone else's video in its entirety and think they are heroes. Oh, maybe they voted for Bernie.
And.. that does jack all. On the off chance labor DOES manage to unite, you get the usual outcome which is people getting pissy that they can't get a coffee at their local starbucks or angry they have to use the back door to the building. Not to mention people constantly attacking labor themselves (remember how everyone insisted it was rogue fedex drivers stealing their PS5s? All while ignoring that the logistics of doing that when you are monitored to the point of needing to piss in a gatorade bottle while driving...)
And no, Bernie 2016 was not the solution either. He would have been the most ineffective president in the history of the US because congress would have stopped everything he tried.
No, the answer is... what the republicans are doing. No, not insurrection and terrorism and giving out handjobs in between visits from child prostitutes. Actually giving a shit about the entire ballot. Getting people on school boards and in county and state governments. Because a "grass roots" campaign to elect the top seat does almost nothing. A "grass roots" campaign to... actually grow some grass leads to change.
But it is so much easier to just talk about how liberals and democrats are truly the source of all problems and how engaging in the system at all is a fool's errand (and supporting Xinnie The Poo and Putin in the process) than it is to actually get involved with your local democrats (or even similarly aligned third parties) to actually push for the candidates who represent you.
Your solution to rampant economic inequality is ... campaign and vote downballot.
I mean, sure, that's a great idea, but your argument essentially boils down to combating apathy (which isn't a new or unique problem), and I guess attacking a hypothetical Sanders administration that never happened because--I dunno, you just wanted to get a jab in at voters who were actually motivated about a candidate for once in a lifetime? Well, good news for you; all the Sanders supporters are back to voting defensively until their kids grow up, if they vote at all. Does that feel like a win to you?
People aren't "taking the easy way out" by not voting the entire ballot. In fact, split-ticket voting is down historically, at least as of 2020, across both parties. Blaming people for not devoting their lives to political activism is akin to blaming minimum wage workers for not walking out: Yeah, maybe things would be better if they did, but people have to survive. Choosing to use what little spare time one has with family instead of participating in local politics isn't a moral failure, and it's not the easy way out. It's just rational. People have limited time and limited means, and there are more important things than who gets to be the constable next year.
Thanks for reiterating why there are no revolts or even regular protests
Because, when faced with the actual solution that is already demonstrably effective, you:
But hey. I'm sure you'll make time to bring food to a striking workforce or bust a cop in the face after you get pepper sprayed and shot at. Just so long as it isn't a new episode of young Sheldon