• murmelade@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    What does it matter what average people can grasp? Average people have no power to change anything.

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      1 year ago

      Not directly on a large scale, but average people vote for candidates, from the city council to whatever the highest office is, and they do.

      If Average Person A doesn’t grasp the imminent danger, they’re not going to prioritize picking a candidate that has climate change policy as a platform issue.

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        1 year ago

        If democracy actually worked, sure. In the immortal words of Method Man:

        Cash rules everything around me C.R.E.A.M., get the money Dollar, dollar bill, y’all

        The average person is aware and is led to believe that throwing their milk cartons in the correct hole is making a difference.