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I've always been of the opinion that if you don't vote, I don't want to hear a word complaining about politics, but I've really reached my breaking point with that bullshit. We've seen it over and over again how ambivalence leads to things getting worse for a lot of people (often including the ambivalent ones). At this point, I'm just cutting people off immediately when they start up and I know they chose not to vote. Shut the fuck up. If it wasn't important enough to go to the ballot box, it's not important enough for me to listen.
if you vote, you have no right to complain
I think the people that are voting this down either didn't watch the video or don't understand sarcasm.
I'm sorry. I generally really like Carlin. but that's a really bad take.
At the time that Carlin was saying this, it was probably a lot more accurate than today. The parties were pretty indistinguishable for a lot of the 80s and 90s, and then after that the Democrats got significantly better in some cases, and the Republicans went straight off the edge into wanting to kill anyone different than them or who wanted to stand in their way.
Neo-liberalism has not been a win for the working class no matter who is in charge of swinging that particular bat.
Quick question, what do you think has happened to working class wages in the last 4 years, and what to income inequality?