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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the voting public into passing the civil rights acts and our leaders have since taken efforts; spent money; and have repealed several civil rights related acts to ensure that it doesn't happen again; this isn't progress.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.