it's incredibly interesting to see the stats on how all those votes played out across the demographics. i honestly didn't have much faith that Alabama would choose correctly when i went to bed. i woke up pleasantly surprised by the election result.
This was definitely welcome news overall, but depressing both that it was so close and that the bar for good news has been set so low that "pedophile predator still walking free but not in the senate" qualifies.
I definitely have mixed feelings about this. Of course, I am elated that Jones was elected! But I am disgusted at my fellow white women who are okay with a pedophile in the United States Senate and I feel frustrated that the bar continues to be so low.
I firmly believe that Democrats need to come out of the gate swinging against white supremacy, climate denial, misogyny, and all the other regressive tactics of the current administration when it comes to the 2018 and beyond elections. No more meeting in the middle. The middle has been moved too far to the right. Medicare for all! Student loan forgiveness! Tax the shit out of the 1%! Banish the electoral college and enact measures to make voting easier for minorities! Equal pay for women! I think attempts to swing the pendulum back to the far left, even while knowing we won't get all those things, will energize the progressive and younger voting bases enough to win where we need to win and take the country back. Or I'm just pipe-dreaming in the glow of Jones' win....
I was listening to MPR on my way to work this morning and they were Tom Perez. He really hit the nail on the head when he said the DNC should do a better job getting people behind the actual issues they care about, rather than the person representing them.
I'm all for compromise, that's what the U.S. Constitution was founded on and I don't think it's a dirty word, but I think you're right. The middle is too far to the right, it needs to be closer to the actual middle. I think getting people out of Congress who are in the pockets of "corporate people" would be a HUGE step in the right direction.
Right, the compromising should not be with what we ask for, but what we get. Compromising can take place in Congress, when our representatives have reasonable and people-mandated pieces of legislation to debate. Right now there is no debate, only oligarchy.
Also, they don't think he's a pedophile. They think women are liars. Women not believing each other. That's the issue we need to address. Because if all women found our common ground, WOW would we be a force.
"And last but by no means least: thank you, Black women. Ninety-seven percent of you--nearly a fifth of the voting population of Alabama--voted for Jones. Once again, you are social justice warriors and heroes of the resistance. I pledge to do my part to vote for your candidates and causes, amplify your voices, and continue to educate myself on systemic oppression and other ways to save the world so you don't have to keep doing it all by yourselves." Thank you for recognizing this, for being one of the ones who GETS it, and for pledging to do your part. <3
it's incredibly interesting to see the stats on how all those votes played out across the demographics. i honestly didn't have much faith that Alabama would choose correctly when i went to bed. i woke up pleasantly surprised by the election result.
I found out right before bed and it was hard to sleep afterward!
This was definitely welcome news overall, but depressing both that it was so close and that the bar for good news has been set so low that "pedophile predator still walking free but not in the senate" qualifies.
Or how about "serial sexual assaulter elected POTUS"?
I definitely have mixed feelings about this. Of course, I am elated that Jones was elected! But I am disgusted at my fellow white women who are okay with a pedophile in the United States Senate and I feel frustrated that the bar continues to be so low.
I firmly believe that Democrats need to come out of the gate swinging against white supremacy, climate denial, misogyny, and all the other regressive tactics of the current administration when it comes to the 2018 and beyond elections. No more meeting in the middle. The middle has been moved too far to the right. Medicare for all! Student loan forgiveness! Tax the shit out of the 1%! Banish the electoral college and enact measures to make voting easier for minorities! Equal pay for women! I think attempts to swing the pendulum back to the far left, even while knowing we won't get all those things, will energize the progressive and younger voting bases enough to win where we need to win and take the country back. Or I'm just pipe-dreaming in the glow of Jones' win....
I was listening to MPR on my way to work this morning and they were Tom Perez. He really hit the nail on the head when he said the DNC should do a better job getting people behind the actual issues they care about, rather than the person representing them.
I'm all for compromise, that's what the U.S. Constitution was founded on and I don't think it's a dirty word, but I think you're right. The middle is too far to the right, it needs to be closer to the actual middle. I think getting people out of Congress who are in the pockets of "corporate people" would be a HUGE step in the right direction.
*were interviewing.
Right, the compromising should not be with what we ask for, but what we get. Compromising can take place in Congress, when our representatives have reasonable and people-mandated pieces of legislation to debate. Right now there is no debate, only oligarchy.
Exactly :'(
Also, they don't think he's a pedophile. They think women are liars. Women not believing each other. That's the issue we need to address. Because if all women found our common ground, WOW would we be a force.
"And last but by no means least: thank you, Black women. Ninety-seven percent of you--nearly a fifth of the voting population of Alabama--voted for Jones. Once again, you are social justice warriors and heroes of the resistance. I pledge to do my part to vote for your candidates and causes, amplify your voices, and continue to educate myself on systemic oppression and other ways to save the world so you don't have to keep doing it all by yourselves." Thank you for recognizing this, for being one of the ones who GETS it, and for pledging to do your part. <3
Amen to this. #blacklivesmatter
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