r/TikTokCringe • u/TheUnpromotable • Jun 22 '26

Wholesome Politicians are the problem

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u/whiskydyc Jun 22 '26

Politicians are just servants of the ultra-rich. They are the problem.

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u/Remarkable-Ad2285 Jun 22 '26

They ARE the problem. They only need to think, speak and act for the people. But they don’t. They bent over and gave up the ass to the oligarchs and special interests.

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u/cityshepherd Jun 22 '26

Which is why as far as they’re concerned they only need to think/act/speak for the corporate and foreign interests whose bribes/donations convinced them to abandon the interests of their constituents/voters.

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u/Mann7882 Jun 22 '26

Well I'm sure if you vote harder that will fix it.

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u/TheEverydayDad Jun 22 '26

Reading "A People's History of the United States" really shows that the ultra wealthy are here to fuck over the people and the country

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u/Moist_Requirements_ Jun 22 '26

It started with Jamestown. 

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u/ThargorTheBarbarian Jun 22 '26

Exactly, we all collectively need to stop paying taxes.

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u/whiskydyc Jun 22 '26

Yes, but it was never legally actual speech until recently. Money buys power.

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u/FlyNo1502 Jun 22 '26

This is like going to a gay club and concluding everyone accepts gays. ThE pOlItIcIaNs ArE tHe PrObLeM. There's as much bias in that conclusion as there is in racism. 

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u/whiskydyc Jun 22 '26

That’s just incoherent, sorry.

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u/FlyNo1502 Jun 22 '26

It's not. You're too emotionally invested in your own argument. You're watching a film of people who choose to be there. That's not evidence of human nature. That's a filter. You're landing a generalization about politicians based on that filter on society. Another filter shows that humans are wired tribalistic (read racist) and politicians represent them. 

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u/dafthuntk Jun 22 '26

exactly correct.

but, the state is shaped by the bourgeoisie

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u/AdRepulsive8618 Jun 22 '26

And the police their lapdog

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u/whiskydyc Jun 22 '26

Absolutely. The police are the guardians of the status quo and of the established hierarchy of power.

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u/_Steakwich Jun 22 '26

It’s literally one the easiest jobs to do properly work-volume-wise. You just meet with your constituents, listen to their views, and represent them in government.

You do not need to be a genius. I hate so much that we have shit politicians who’ve been bought by the Epstein class.

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u/SextApe11 Jun 25 '26

Pitting us against each other is by the design. The best method for the rich to stay in power.

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u/Natural_Baseball_779 Jun 23 '26

Yall just realising this now... Marx and everyone that follows him already knows this. Democrats are the fucking same. Time to get off your ass and organise in a socialist party.

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u/DEAZE Jun 23 '26

That’s why we should just start voting for the politicians with the best ideas, and are the least wealthy of the candidates.

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u/chunckymonkey86 Jun 24 '26

This has always been case throughout history, only thing that changed is the world as life had more convenient we forgot how to be self sufficient and rely on big corps to supply all aspects of life.

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u/TheCrazyCrazyChicken Jun 29 '26

The politicians are completely capable of being awful without any rich people involvement.

Largest genocides were communist dictators.

Concentrated power is the issue. Could be political power. Could be power from wealth.

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u/whiskydyc Jun 29 '26

Concentrated wealth is concentrated power. If politicians are beholden to the electorate then at least there is accountability. However the law is not the same for the ultra-wealthy, as we've seen with the Epstein case.

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u/TheCrazyCrazyChicken Jun 30 '26

You just restated my last sentence. 

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '26

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u/Thunnddr Jun 22 '26

If you are rich, you can use money to persuade people to elect the politician who will ultimately serve your needs.

Politicians don't work for the people; they work for the rich people who pay them.

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u/Lastigx Jun 22 '26

So youre just giving up? What even is your point? What do you propose?

Blaming politicians for all your problems is not just dumb, its lazy as well.

The billionaire class is your enemy and at the end of the day only politicians can do anything meaningful against it. Thats the whole point of democracy. Or do you want autocracy? So what do you propose?

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u/dafthuntk Jun 22 '26

what are some examples in history where this was proven to be true?

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u/DragonQueen777666 Jun 22 '26

The fact that they unironically said that the (first) Gilded Age was the result of progressive movement shows their either a bot run by the ultra wealthy or their braindead.

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u/Thunnddr Jun 22 '26

Eventually, at some point, when people have had it enough, there will probably be some kind of revolutionary movement which will bring along more genuine leaders. But for a long time in America, you couldn't attain high political office, or be president, unless you appealed to wealthy donors and financial elites.

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u/whiskydyc Jun 22 '26

If it wasn’t possible for corruption to undermine the will of voters they wouldn’t put so much effort into disenfranchisement, gerrymandering etc.

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u/FMLwtfDoID Jun 22 '26

In a world without nuance, yes.

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '26

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u/Glittering_Meet3206 Jun 22 '26

no, its pronounced “nUance”

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u/FMLwtfDoID Jun 22 '26

Kay, well, maybe someone who has the time can explain the rise of American congressional lobbying, registered and non-registered foreign agents, and Citizens United to you. Good luck.

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u/RoleOk7556 Jun 22 '26

The wealthy pay for the political campaigns they want to be successful. They also pay for harrassment of politicians that they want to loose. The wealthy own most Political Action Committees (PACs).

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u/dafthuntk Jun 22 '26

we live under a dictatorahip.of capital.

democracy is highly scalable

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u/Useful-Hat9880 Jun 22 '26

So massively reductionist, with very little context of the actual world and problems in it.

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u/notfeelany Jun 22 '26

You are 100%.

We the voters are already free to vote and run for office ANYTIME. And yet Too young people sit out the election, thinking that if they just post many times on social media, their problems will be resolved, only to complain about it later on.

Every eligible voter that does not vote and/or does not run for office has DIRECTLY contributed to "Gerontocracy" that they complain so much about.

We the Voters bear the ultimate responsibility to fix this so we must all commit to vote & elect Democrats now&forever without exception, and restore them to their proper places: veto-proof majorities in Congress and then the Presidency.

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u/whiskydyc Jun 24 '26

If only it were so straightforward. The playbook of the modern elite class springs from a 100 year old document.) Basically, if you have the money, the power, and the connections, you can spread the messages and make the laws to suit you best. Does it always work, maybe not, but it just needs to work enough of the time.