Political Memes

It's quick and easy to blame a specific party or whatever boogeyman du jour you want. It's much harder to do the work and takes a lot longer to actually actively participate in supporting stronger leaders and building a better future.

I can't and won't comment on OP's specific motivations, but the thing I consistently see with messages like this -- no viable solutions and no practical alternatives. Just fluff and fantasy, misinformation, and over simplification, amongst other problematic issues.

Voting is basically the lowest hurdle to participate and influence political outcomes (in the USA) and yet voter turnout is shockingly low. Of course that's going to be a big message from any party that wants to be part of the process. What this graphic specifically is doing is making it seems like that's the ONLY messaging coming from the Democratic party. It's the same ole song and dance as the fascists, misinformation.

Then, seeing how abyssal voter turn out is in the country, participation rates in all the other political activities is only a tiny little fraction of that. You want change? You want power? You'll have to participate and you'll have to persuade others, many others, to participate. You need to organize, and you need to have a plan.

Let's say you believe the shtick that Dems "do nothing to fight back", what things did you do to counter that? I'm sure here in the anonymity of the Lemmy, we all donated lots of money to other parties and candidates, knocked on doors and made calls on their behalf, helped support new and upcoming leaders (or stepped up ourselves) and convinced them to run for local offices so that they were in a great position to move up the chain to ever more important and influential positions, and we called our leaders from locals all the way up to federal level and let them know what issues we find important. But outside of the minuscule population on Lemmy, the US population as a whole did not. And memes laser focused on further disenfranchising people from the process definitely won't change a thing there. In fact, that's part of why we're here to begin with.

Oh, but InvalidName2, YoU DiDn't oFfEr aNy pRaCtIcAl sOlUtIoNs eItHeR, yOu'rE JuSt aS BaD.

I did, but if you didn't pay attention, you're not a serious person. I'd rather spend my effort donating lots of money the best candidates I can find, knocking on doors and making calls on their behalf, helping support campaigns of new and upcoming leaders, and talking to my elected officials from locals all the way up to federal level and let them know what issues I find important, and numerous other activities that align with my political goals. AND I'm also helping other people get involved where they can, supporting local organizations to amplify that support, and so on.