Too bad neither of the major parties will ever run a leftist
this post was submitted on 07 Nov 2024
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this is why we have to get together and try to put a strategy for getting a leftist in power in the works
That is why state government elections are so important right now.
- States all need a representative voting system implemented. Ranked Choice, STAR, it doesn't matter, just get something that's not a single ballot practice.
- Each state also needs it's electoral college distributed to top candidates proportionally, by either direct vote count or by counties won. This at least somewhat neutralizes the effects of gerrymandering.
Better systems can come later, this should be a top priority for going forward. As it stands the American public doesn't stand a chance at being represented and that needs to change first before other fixes can actually come about.
Biden will be the last Democratic president of the US. Either the US will dissolve, a new party will take their place, or we'll be a mono party autocracy.
There are worse ways to be conservative. Hollywood likes to portray us as simple machos with moustacho, but we are complex men, to say the least. You should look into our history to understand how conservative we are.
Hidalgo, our father founder abolished slavery in 1810. The first black president of Mexico was an independence hero, Vicente Guerrero, in 1829. Lost half the Mexican territory to a nascent hegemony in the 1840s, but we still hold our ground since then. Benito Juarez and his comrades separated the state from the catholic church in the 1850s. We also have fought for a republican state against monarchies and empires surely more times than I can recall. Got rid of two attempts to establish a local monarchy. The second attempt led to a ~30–year dictatorship which ended with a civil war -the Mexican revolution- won by a democratic armed movement that made us culturally adamant of the idea of reelections in the executive and legislative state branches.
In the past century, a new form of dictatorship found its roots in the government since the 1930s. This system was completely corrupt by the 1960s. Again, workers and students spearheaded movements against this "perfect dictatorship" through violent and nonviolent resistance that led to the "dirty war", which was the state disappearing, killing and convicting dissidents with the help of offices like the CIA, fighting in Mexico against Communism. In 1988, Mexico elected a progressive president, which was denied by an electoral fraud. In 1994, a declaration of war to the Mexican State by the EZLN called Mexicans, but mostly indigenous people, to arms.
Not many people publicly questioned the capacity of women to lead the country ten years ago, but the work to find eligible women in the political scene was only starting. Laws of parity in government existed but weren't fully implemented. In 2018 the so-called progressive president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO), actively procured parity in the government, even outside the framework of the law. For example, the law didn't say he was required to have parity in his cabinet, but he did. Add to this the remarkable career of Claudia Sheinbaum as a politician and her loyalty to the movement she found. The feminist boom of the MeToo movement probably cemented the idea of a woman president close to AMLO.
Some people consider the current leftist, progressive government and movement the heir of all these fights. That's too recent to judge, in my opinion. But yeah, we fight. It's taken so much blood and lives to found Mexico, we know we aren't big in the world but our people have faced "big" names through its history (Spain, France, Austria, UK, USA, Germany...) and we are still around. A woman leading the country is not weird here. Weirdos are all those fuckers hitting and killing brothers and sisters all over the country. They'll pay, we'll remain.
Greatly appreciate the history lesson
I love history, but that was hardly a lesson. Anyway, thank you, I appreciate the comment.
The way her hairband coincides with her ear makes her look a bit like an elf. Or maybe it’s just too early in the morning and I need to wake up.
no, you need to go back to sleep, there are no elves in headbands here
it's funny that you can get that when you run a campaing that focuses on material issues for the most part and don't try to court a non existent center/center right voting bloc that doesn't exist
In general the right left binary is not very accurate for capturing how most average people think of politics. People may be socially conservative on one issue and progressive on another. They might favor left wing economic policies but may not conceptualize it as left wing.
Mexico i would say has a more culturally conservative tradition than the USA does, yet Morena was able to successfully pass all sorts of socially progressive legislation, because they were lowkey about it while rhetorically emphasizing the bread and butter economic issues most
In general the right left binary is not very accurate for capturing how most average people think of politics.
Which is why you need more than two political parties!
Is the leftist in the picture?
Yep, both of em. The one on the left and the one on the right.
The one on the right is actually left, riiiight...
Yeah actually. He started the Morena party that she now leads.
Alright, I guess my comment didn't land, so I'll stop not since I have nothing left.
Ah sorry, English isn't my first language
As a Latin American who has lived under a "socialist" I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop
Technically Hillary did get the popular vote. I wouldn't call her a leftist per se, but for the US maybe.