And still anytime it’s brought up, often the Americans downvote it… There have been a few great studies that show the complete ineffectiveness of voting. It’s all about lobbying.

And when you finally get people to concede its about lobbying from elites, the definitions of elite is wildly skewed. People who make $100k/yr are not “the elites”. “The 1%” are not the elites. It’s about $700k/yr now to be a 1%er in the USA as of 2023 data. Even with 700k a year, you aren’t buying a $25m private jet, and a $300m yacht. You aren’t donating $3m at a time to Super PACs to get your pet project through.

$700k/yr is also just some tech dude coding for Netflix that lives in a 1500sqft house in California.

We humans are really really bad at numbers. A million sounds like so much. A billion sounds like so much more. But the concept of how much more is lost on most people. And now you have TRILLION dollar companies.

There are a few people and companies in the USA that control everything. Everything else is smoke and mirrors. And lots is purposefully designed to keep poorer and less powerful people fighting each other.

Specifically a plutocracy

Sorry man, I’ve got work in the morning

Any attempt at revolution without critical mass will be seen as terrorism at best by most of the people. Its a numbers game and we’re not winning. First step would be a thorough rooting out of all elements of fascism, that is probably the largest coalition you can make, every strain of leftism and even some liberals hate fascism. From there pivot the anti fascist sentiment into pro revolutionary and you have yourself a chance.

Not now John we gotta get on with this.

Can we do it next week instead? I’m trying to get through all the Angry Birds levels.

CCL is another good one that gets a lot done on not a huge budget. Let’s just say the fossil fuel lobbyists are way better funded than us. (Donations here, though donating time arguably helps even more, and CCL will train you how to lobby Congress)