but have you considered that the line wouldn’t go up if people weren’t manipulated into buying things they don’t need?

I gotta respect Hitler for giving no fucks & for “punching” any damn direction he wants.

First off, I live in the USA

Could have stopped there instead of just wading on in like you already know everything, but then I guess that wouldn’t have been very American

Sure, my suggestion would be to join the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) and get involved locally with them or some other direct action group in your area.

Hopefully where you live there is already a group of people doing these things and they can help you get more into it.

By building a people powered movement through solidarity, establishing workers co-operatives, industrial unionization, pro-revolutionary social spaces and through direct action. As the working class becomes increasingly organized and class conscious, we can increasingly reject capitalism and the state. If the working class refuses to perform labor for the ruling class, in an ideal world, we can remove them from power without a single loss of life. In reality, they would use violence against us, so we would need to be ready to defend ourselves.

By all means, vote away, under our current system, it can be viewed as harm reduction. But if you have time and energy to spare, that time and energy would be far better spent agitating for real change and engaging in the activities I mentioned above.

Vitally, learn about anarchism, and how it presents a solution to our deeply, fundamentally broken society.

You can’t vote your way out of this shit, even if you elect the greatest people ever to live, the entire system is built up with entrenched elites. The military, the media, the intelligence services, the judiciary, lobbyists, and so on. And people can be corrupt and selfish even if they start with good intentions.

There is only one solution: revolution.