Because if it wasn’t him representing his state, it would be a right-wing Republican. He’s the best option at this point in time, as maddening as that is.
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Please do not gatekeep in this topic by suggesting that only voting Americans need reply. Everyone is entitled to an opinion, and you are free to give those opinions weight (or not) as you see fit, based on the information the poster provides (as with any other topic). This is especially true given the effect US policy has on the rest of the planet overall.
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And he has done some good things w.r.t. judicial appointments and the like. But yes, he’s probably the only sort of Democrat who could hold that position.
I suppose.
I just wish that such ‘spectators’ would quit nonchalantly acting like the negative consequences and repercussions of the rise of fascism here in the US are no more serious or problematic than losing a fucking video game. As if human lives are somehow not genuinely at stake.
It’s pretty damn demoralizing.
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I guess it’s that I lived thru the civil rights struggles of the 1960s and 70s (albeit as a child), and it feels in a lot of ways like we’re back-sliding. The U.S. doesn’t have any “special” protection from sliding into authoritarianism. We could just as easily become the next Belarus or Philippines as anything else, and I’m not sure I trust enough of my fellow citizens to stop it, or even care.
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Thank you. That word doesn’t get used enough!
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Yeah, I did as well, not so much as a child. Which is why I feel comfortable saying there has been progress. It remains an unfinished project, but to pretend it never happened, or has all evaporated, isn’t (currently) accurate. Compared to when I was in HS (late 70’s) LGBTQ rights have advanced light-years, rights for Blacks likewise. (we still had “separate but equal” proms, homecoming and other social events at the time.) There is a reactionary force trying to pull us back to the past, but it has not won yet, and I am prepared to spend my time, treasure and blood to make sure that does not happen.
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Time, yes, money, no: given the GOP already like to paint Dems as having foreign ties (even though they’re the ones with politicians bought and paid by Moscow and Riyadh), let’s not even give them an opening that smacks of impropriety.
I’m a permanent resident here, and I waited until l have my green card before I donated to PACs and campaigns. Volunteering is fine though, I was an Obama '08 volunteer!
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My previous comment on this was eaten. But yes, a foreign national cannot donate money directly to a campaign or PAC. Which makes sense and not what I was suggesting. There are many political orgs such individuals can donate to as well as as host of civil rights orgs like ACLU, NAACP, SPLC, etc. And foreign nationals can donate as much of their time as they’d like.
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