• JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
    142·
    8 days ago

    Pro tip to our friends in the east*: if you don’t want to have to freeze your butts protesting in the depths of winter to get rid of a strongman, then you need to vote, vote, VOTE well in advance, every time you have a chance, picking the non-strongman candidates, and if necessary get involved and run for election yourself. It’s boring but there is no alternative.

    *and not just, at this rate.

    • petrescatraian@libranet.de
      2·
      6 days ago

      @JubilantJaguar @merari42 We’re doing our best. Sadly we’re not living in the most democratic systems. Even last summer at the local elections, in a few jurisdictions, there was solid evidence that the vote was rigged in favor of the ruling party. Wherever the difference is a narrow one, they can allow themselves to do this and get away unharmed. And in some smaller communities (i.e. villages), reformist parties have almost no foothold, so no members in the polling sections. This means that the possibility for voter fraud is immense, and voter corruption is almost guaranteed.

      The solution is not just to vote, but to get out and vote massively to get these people out of power wherever we have a ground. As a well known sailor once said:

      They cannot steal just as much as you can vote.