because people will forever fail to see the reasons why we’re forced to vote in this manner if they continue to collectively make no attempt to look past their indoctrination.

i’m never that lucky and this is clearly hitting close to home for you as it does for me based on your comments.

i have the benefit of doing this for about 50 years so i have my own ways of coping and i hope you have your own version of touching grass too.

i envy the intelligent who have the capacity to share their views without resorting to childish behavior; like your insults.

yes and the vast majority who only have that “shallow understanding” and the people who have worked ensure that they do have sealed our fate.

that’s the last time we made progress and those too come from the same generation of civil rights pushes.

similarly to MLK jr, our leaders have also taken efforts, spend money and legislated away rights to ensure that they never happen again; yes we did progress at those times, but haven’t since then.

there is no objective answer to your question; only responses that align with our world view and in my world view neither biden nor harris represent progress based on my experiences.

MLK jr was successful because of the portrayals of racially motivated violence in the media galvanized the voting public into passing the civil rights acts and our leaders have since taken efforts; spent money; and have repealed several civil rights related acts to ensure that it doesn’t happen again; this isn’t progress.

experience has taught me that you can’t change people’s minds on anything and i don’t think you can accomplish anything in this system unless you have enough money or sufficient collectivism to affect change.

i’m old enough and am member to enough vulnerable minority groups to have experienced a few forms of enshitification and i’m sharing my experience because i can see it happening to both the lemmyverse and this country; if there’s anything that can be accomplished by my efforts it would be the this.

waiting for election to end before taking action to stop a genocide sounds too much like the definition of that timetable MLK jr was referring to and voting for an genocider enabler to help maintain negative peace is something he actively warned against.

moderates have a “shallow understanding” of MLK jr’s efforts because americans are indoctrinated against all it of it except for his nonviolence and it’s relevance along with my experience is saddening since i’m literally watching history repeat before my eyes as it’s enabled by the overwhelming majority who never bothered to reach out past that indoctrination.

i left the democrat fold after dadt & doma and the ensuing decades have proved to me that it was the right decision for my circumstances and i made it easy for myself by moving into a solidly blue state where my choices would be drowned out by the voting masses who generally align with my views most of the time.

i will have to make decisions once the democrat’s conversion into diet republicans starts to effect their palatability in my state and i’ll have an answer to your question at that time.

i live in a solidly blue state and voting third party. i couldn’t help trump win even if i wanted to because of the same electoral college that’s helping him win; i’m using the system against itself and you should too every single chance you get.

My prediction is that your account, along with many others will magically go silent on these topics come next week.

i think you’re right; but not in the time frame of your prediction.

i’ve had to move from one social media platform onto another since the 1990’s (before it was called social media) and it did so because of enshitification. the defederation-happy instances like .world are using their leverage to mold lemmy into a diet reddit and the lemmyverse will become enshitified because of it.

when that happens, my account will go silent, as you predicted, and you’ll be free to enjoy your echo chamber while supporting the enshitification of both the lemmyverse and the american empire.

Reminder that it was Biden who just recently issued a forceful formal apology to the indigenous people of America…

it was another public display of the same “shallow understanding” from moderates that MLK jr wrote about; but i think he can be forgiven for it since the native americans in canada and united states seem to have similar understanding.

and the blue states conversion is going to happen at the same rate as democrat’s conversion into diet republicans.

i saw that and i’m wondering how i can leverage it; it’s a FANTASTIC idea!

i live in a solidly blue state and i’m voting third party. i could never help trump even if i wanted to because of the same electoral college that’s helping him win; i’m using the system against itself, as you should do every chance you get.

my ancestors where genocided out of existence in this country so i’m 100% sure that they would agree with me that being party to the same system & people that have a history of repeatedly using genocide as acceptable political collateral damage is a bad idea and anything good that comes from it is an accident.

i live in a solidly blue state and voting third party. doing so guarantees that i could never help trump thanks to the same electoral college that gives trump a chance at winning; i’m using the system against itself and you should too whenever you have the chance.

also republicans take direct action to work around issues that prevent their base from winning and democrats would benefit by taking similar actions; but don’t since leftists platforms drive away campaign donors so it’s a self made rock and a hard place for democrats.

there’s a meme from a protest sign floating around asking why it’s easier to accept that hundreds of millions of people lazy rather than accepting that it’s a few 100 people creating the problem.

similarly, harris is one person and her changing her strategy will have a bigger impact than millions of people changing theirs to suit hers before the election and she doesn’t even have to mean it:

she could literally just pay lip service the day of the election where it can do the least amount of damage when it comes to moderate voters and that would gain the support of people like me; but she won’t

ignorance truly is bliss and i envy you for it.

wanna guess how much democrats learned from it in 2016?

You could at least help my daughter, my mother, my sister by ensuring the one who supports women’s rights gets elected? Who supports LGBTQ+? Who supports climate change initiatives? That’s even pretending Harris is equally bad on Gaza or that things couldn’t obviously get worse for Palestinians.

every single one of my identities is targeted by project 2025 and i’m not afraid of it because i benefit from the experience of surviving the aids/hiv crisis in the 1980’s. like it is in gaza right now; my government also did little more than make public displays of support while they idly let people die by the thousands back then and that experience has taught me how to recognize that they’re doing it again. (it’s easy to recognize it this time around since it’s literally being done by mostly the same people).

mutual aid was the only thing that helped anyone back then and we’ll be going back to doing it again once we enact the few remaining parts of project 2025 that we haven’t yet enacted since 1981. your daughter, your mother, your sister, my mother & my husband will not be (and was not) helped by anything trump or harris or any genocider does unless it’s by accident and putting faith in them isn’t going to help matters since they’re clearly hellbent of repeating history.