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Study: Congress literally doesn’t care what you think. The preferences of the average American appear to have only a miniscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy. (act.represent.us)

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[–] exanime@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

can we vote for imaginary politicians now?

[–] bloodfart@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

what politics do you have? what motivates you?

I like the party for socialism and liberation and it's a great time to like them because they're running a presidential candidate on a platform of palestinian statehood and an end to arms shipments to israel, but you might have different values.

what do you wish you could vote for?

[–] exanime@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't believe there is a single politician out there who mean more than 2% of what they say.

I definitely lean left in almost any category... the problem is that even if a politician or party directly promise, word for word, exactly what I want. There is zero chance they will even try to implement it when they get to power; worse, there is not even a way to keep them accountable except "not voting for them again".

I live in Canada and I voted for Trudeau in great part for electoral reform which was directly promised and then completely 180d. Trudeau did a couple of OK things but for the most part has been mediocre (not the cause of all our problems as the opposition claims). However, I find myself now in the spot where I either vote for Trudeau again to keep on the mediocrity train, or vote for PP who stands for nothing, has accomplished nothing in over 20 years of being a public employee leech and has all but promised he will run the country off a cliff to own the libs

[–] bloodfart@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

i'm not as familiar with canadian politics as i could be, who's PP?

IIRC you have a communist party and a ml party. idk if they have a decent stance on the issues that motivate you but they're probably not a fall in line behind the liberals party like americas DSA is...

[–] exanime@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

PP is short for Pierre Poilievre who is the head of the Conservative Party (our version of USA's Republicans) and likely to win the next election in 2025

The closest we get here is the NDP (New Democratic Party) who are left leaning... but they are in shambles here

[–] bloodfart@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

It looks from my reading that you do have a communist party and they ran a retired teacher in 2021.

They seem nice. Why not check em out?