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Hey champ.
What's your solution?
Voting 3rd party isn't a solution because no 3rd party has done the work to become a nationally viable party. Not even remotely close.
So. Your solution, champ?
[One possible avenue...]
Step 1:
Not falling for that [circular-reasoned] self fulfilling prophecy.
XD
Maybe a
Step 2:
https://theconversation.com/proportional-representation-could-reduce-polarization-in-congress-and-help-more-people-feel-like-their-voices-are-being-heard-270411
(And of course, can break this step up into many other parts, many other different approaches to have it be accomplished. And of course, this is only a suggestion (which works reasonably well here where I am ~ still could be better)), one among many ways to improve that whole area... )
Ooh I know this one: workers seize the means of production and smash the state! And then . . uh, like, some cool dudes fix it way better than it was? Or something. I dunno tbh.
I do know these people will never have an actual plan or an actual leader.
Oh wow. You want a leader?
Can't get there from here.
No plan, sounds good to me.
How about more people in the system realise that they too, even their bosses, and everybody, are better off with the technologies that can emancipate everybody get released, rather than suppressed as they are now. End this lost century or two.
More than just whistleblowers.
Once the genie's out of the bottle, they cannot put it back in.
...
I recall patent office whistle blower Tom Valone, at energy conferences sometime between 2000 and 2005 iirc, stating something like, that, "by the year 2000 there have already been over 3000 free energy device patents secreted". How much headroom do we have without the crooks holding us down, without us being hog-tied to their polluting and inferior technology metered for rents? ... Y'know they can print gold, right?
Word of the day: Agnotology.
It's a big industry. One so few know anything about. By recursive design.
PS, Bucky was right:
“We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.” -- Buckminster Fuller
Well that’s a shame