Americans are given a choice every 4yrs and they choose who they choose. Nobody loves a billionaire more than Americans do. We idolize those who can capitalize within capitalism. The education system is what it is. But Americans aren’t powerless completely, they just let their voices be heard every 4yrs. It will take a quality life reset back to the pre-GI bill days for Americans to collectively vote for their self interest. You said it yourself, those were common sense measures that reflects the extreme conditions of workers at that time. Well….what happened this month? Why weren’t the majority of “working Americans” motivated to vote down ballot for progressive candidates with more transformative policies? Why did they elect the billionaire shrewd New Yorker for the 2nd time?
Based on this post it seems you dont understand how power, money, and propaganda shape elections. The idea that Americans are just making a "free choice" every four years, unaffected by corporate media, dark money, voter suppression, and systemic rigging, is downright laughable.
Billionaires, corporations, and the political establishment spend trillions flooding the airwaves, and social media with misinformation, fear-mongering, and culture war distractions, anyone who thinks this doesnt effect how people vote is a fool. You can’t just say
“Americans idolize billionaires” without acknowledging that decades of relentless capitalist propaganda have glorified them while demonizing socialism/communism, collective action, unions, and government assistance.
Then on top of all of that you have voter suppression. Gerrymandering, voter ID laws, the gutting of the Voting Rights Act, long voting lines in poor and black neighborhoods, and the electoral college all make it impossible for your vote to really count. Even when voters do make it to the polls, the corporate media serves the interests of the elite, they frame elections as horse races and do everything to avoid talking about class wars. How much time do mainstream media outlets spend seriously debating wealth redistribution, labor movements, or corporate power? None. Instead, they keep people fixated on culture war distractions while billionaires continue to loot the economy.
The idea that Americans simply don’t want progressive policies is another bold faced lie by bad actors or people who are just not informed on what they're talking about. Progressive economic policies consistently win when put to a direct vote, higher minimum wages, labor protections, marijuana legalization, and Medicaid expansion all pass
overwhelmingly in deep red states. The issue isn’t that people don’t want these things; it’s that the Democratic Party often fails to frame them in a way that resonates, and corporate-backed candidates actively sabotage progressive momentum. Meanwhile, the ruling class spends trillions to convince people that their problems are caused by anyone but the rich. Working-class anger is real, but instead of being directed at billionaires and corporations, it’s redirected toward immigrants, minorities and homosexuals. The GOP, with help from corporate Democrats, has mastered the art of channeling class frustration into cultural wars, keeping people divided and distracted from the real enemy.
This isn’t a neutral, fair system where Americans just naturally gravitate toward billionaires. The ruling class engineers the illusion of choice by rigging the system at every level. Saying
“Americans just vote for what they want” ignores the massive machinery of propaganda and voter suppression that guarantees real economic populism is never a mainstream option. If anything, the fact that despite all this, progressive ideas still manage to gain traction shows just how much potential there is for real change if people stop pretending this system is a functioning democracy and start recognizing it for what it is: an oligarchy where elections serve as a formality to maintain elite control. It's amazing just because we have elections people still think they're free
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