Good News. Kentucky re-elected Democratic governor. Virginia flipped house of delegates to Democrats, gaining complete control of state legislature.
Kentucky shows is that even in red states, Democrats have the numbers. This shows how critical showing up and voting is.
GOP/Republicans bad for climate change. They deny it, say it isn’t humans, etc. Democrats at least acknowledge we need to do something.
For those outside the US, we have first past the post voting, which inevitably leads to two political parties.
State governments hold a lot of power. They are almost completely over sovereign with certain restrictions and reservations of power by our federal government.
GOP (aka Republicans) = Right to far right. I.e. libertarian, fascist, conservative, Christian nationalist.
Democrat = center right to far left. I.e. conservative, progressive, socialist, neoliberal
Democrats have greater numbers by a good margin, but have lower voter turnout and are disenfranchised electorial due to gerrymandering.
I feel like this is part of the problem. A bad President like Trump can make things far worse, but most of the time what they say and what they can do are very different things.
IIRC Biden talked about federally legalizing marijuana, but has not done so yet which does not help his case.
he talked about that after the election though. All in all though Biden has been awesome for me. No surprise billing, a jobs bill that focuses on enviromental conserns, capping student loans to the original principal and forgiving after 20 years (which is only because he got blocked on loan forgiveness in general but he still came out with a pretty good system), getting taxes done online. Ill take it.
Decriminalizing weed, voting rights, student loan forgiveness, all were supposed to be “day 1” initiatives. None have been successfully delivered and he’s almost through his first term. Biden only cares about keeping corporate oligarchs in power, and the DNC is playing with fire foisting this garbage candidate on us while risking the criminal traitor Trump as an alternative. It’s risky, it’s greedy, and it’s wrong.
Agreed. The DNCs only saving Grace is that they aren’t Trump which is only a winning strategy now after they royally fucked up with Hillary, the candidate that had a 20+ year smear campaign against her (on top of the other problems). I don’t have confidence that they learned from any of this, which could push another fascist candidate into power who may be more competent. Here’s hoping Americans start learning to read through the bullshit lmao.
I ask people to read up on the history of the labor movement (Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, Battle for Blair mountain, mining unions etc) as that’s what started changing my American propagandized perspective.