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‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens (lemmy.ml)

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[–] LemmysMum 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Why can't we commoners set up our own force to protect us the regular people?

For the same reasons enough of us don't vote for a government that will do the same. We get what we vote for.

[–] BigBlackCockroach 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.” ― Lucy Parsons, Lucy Parsons: Freedom, Equality & Solidarity - Writings & Speeches, 1878-1937

[–] LemmysMum 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wish for the days of the future where our current Democracy is understood to be as distant to real democracy as we already understand communist Russia as being from communism, and national socialist Germany was from socialism.

[–] BigBlackCockroach 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wishes are great, but make it happen!

[–] LemmysMum 2 points 1 year ago

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.