I mean, really think about a United States that doesn’t have half the government constantly fighting against civil rights for minorities and LGBT populatons, renewable energy, universal healthcare, reproductive choice, public transit and public works- Just think for one second about what our society would be like without the Republican Party.
I, for one, think that that society would be a hell of a lot more capable of helping disenfranchised people- even over an international border- than we ever will with the GOP appointing judges and holding veto power over us.
To go back to my analogy, the reason we can’t swim is because the GOP has tied our legs together. I’m saying that undoing the knots and throwing the rope is a far better choice than splashing about and hoping the guy who pushed us overboard in the first place will finally agree to rescue us both.
The senate is under gerrymandered control. Why do you think the Republicans retain those seats but, don’t have the votes to representatively be given those senators? It’s because they cheat their way to victory. For instance, my senator Pat Toomey was elected under the old gerrymandered district map in PA. The Republicans developed these districts with computer modelling that affectively shapes the districts to proportionately remove Democrats, Independents, who would vote against Republicans from the picture. I was part of a group in PA that undergerrymandered the state via a lawsuit by the ACLU and the League of Women Voters, it was resolved in the PA Supreme Court which luckily had a Democratic majority.
(The Guardian, 2018): “The real concerns for Democrats, they said, could be found in a combination of gerrymandering and voter suppression tactics that might have prevented them from winning an even larger majority in the House and some key statewide elections”.
“The rise of minority rule in America is now unmistakable,” said Laurence Tribe, a constitutional law professor at Harvard University.
“Cutting off” the red states is not going to fix shit.
It’s not a “southern” problem, it’s an American problem. Get your head straight.
I and the millions of people who live down here who aren’t assholes aren’t abstractions. We are the ones on the front fucking lines. If this whole union goes south, we’re the first people in line for the fucking death camps.
But I guess it’s good to know who has my back and who doesn’t.
Happy to get your back. Any time you want to get out of there, you let me know and I’ll hook you up with a solid start up here.
And if you want to stay and fight, I’d gladly send resources aplenty to you instead of to your presumably Republican controlled state government.
But it’s gotta be in a way that doesn’t get all of us killed trying- And to be perfectly honest, a good look at the latest climate news has me convinced that’s not hyperbole.
As I said, I think we could help more from the outside than we can with them on the inside.
Clearly, you missed the GA govs election and how far we’ve come. The bulk of the civil rights movement was here, in the south. This is where the fight is. I’m sad that you don’t see that.
I have a feeling that in the remaining third there are a chunk of folks who also believe he’s a criminal (and don’t give a fuck up a cat’s ass about it) but who just won’t admit it because libtards gotta lose.
I think I remember us fighting a war about that once. It didn’t work out so well.
My family is from Ohio. Its rural parts are solidly pro-Trump and have always been heavily Republican. Better torch all of that, too, right? Oh, and the northern parts of New England and the upper Midwest, they’ve been right-leaning for decades, so chop them off, too. Aw heck, let’s redefine America as San Francisco, Portland, and Austin; the rest is potentially problematic.
Yes, and to add to that, white nationalism is growing in blue Washington state. Racism doesn’t stop at borders or care who has the majority of the state vote. It is a problem everywhere in the US.
[ETA] Denying that or only assuming it’s bigoted, ignorant southerners or people in rural areas that are the problem completely misses the forest for the trees. White supremacy is baked into the very fabric of American society, and even though we have better structures to deal with racial inequality than we did just a few decades ago, there are still deeply ingrained attitudes and structures that never got dismantled…
Absolutely… when WEB DuBois suggested the name for the NAACP, it was because he had a globalized strategy in mind - the “colored people” part was meant to be an acknowledgement that people of many races around the world were being oppressed by European colonial structures. He wanted to work in tandem with other oppressed peoples and make it a global movement, not just a national one. Another thing people miss, I’m afraid to say.
I didn’t know that and great point. Memes (the original definition, not the internet version) transmit a lot like viruses. They don’t care about borders. As long as an ism exists anywhere on the planet it remains a risk to us all. Like how Nazism seemed to be a long dead thing (except for a few odd people) and well, here we are now with it growing again in popularity.
