simplymath

No. Other countries got there with protests and organizing the working class and building widespread solidarity. Those rights were earned with blood, not by electing the lesser of two evils.

And, yes, I do think direct action and specific, localized outreach would be the way to build up that kind of movement. Showing up one day every 4 years while the Dems move further right every time is certainly not going to work anymore than voting for the republicans they're trying to emulate.

Unionize your workplace or set up a tenant's union. Establish actual resistance and build up trust with these disaffected communities. Steal food from Walmart and give it to homeless people. Block an ICE detention vehicle or surround an eviction with people from the neighborhood. Power has never been given up willingly and no working class movement has ever succeeded without being a categorical threat to capital. The Democratic party is not that and will never be.

Stop doubling down on polarized partisan poliltics and create instances for solidarity and mutual education. That might actually work.

Anyone else remember the Senate hearings with Facebook et Al a few years ago that went nowhere? TikTok is clearly not the only company doing this, but is the only one being prosecuted.

If the shoe fits..

Huh? I did no such thing. I merely hinted at the electoral split between people with and without higher education. It's quite clear that more education is strongly correlated with a tendency to vote Democrat. I understand why someone who did not go to college would not necessarily understand how tariffs will raise prices or how trickle down economics has never had empirical success. I made no claim about people of color and their education level. I was simply discussing the measured demographic numbers around who voted for whom.

I watch the news every day and understand that when I worked 60 hours a week making minimum wage, that wasn't really a priority or something I had time for. If I had kids in addition to multiple jobs, it would be incredibly difficult to stay informed about economic and social policies, especially when there are powerful interests pushing disinformation to my tv and phone.

I don't know what the Dems have done for them-- it's a genuine question. They haven't raised the minimum wage, secured women's bodily autonomy with legislation, passed the equal rights amendment, or made any progress on redlining and historical segregation patterns that categocially lead to less wealth generation for non white families in the 2nd half of the 20th century. They didn't prosecute anyone after the 2009 crisis and have adopted the Republican border, China, and hawkish military policies wholesale since 2016.

They haven't even passed drug policy reform legislation -- an issue which has overwhelming bipartisan support nationally. However, I do know that the Dems pushed the 90s crime bill that disproportionately criminalized black men and instituted racialized penalties for drugs that were more common in black communities than white ones.

I guess we can talk about the expanded childhood tax credit, but that was a COVID era law signed into law by Trump, which passed with bipartisan support, so it's kinda weird to credit that to the Dems. Or Obamacare, which came out of the Massachusetts program proposed by the heritage foundation and implemented by Mitt Romney, so it's at least weird to credit that as a liberal policy. It was written by the same people who put Brett Kavanaugh on the supreme court.

Since we're on the topic of Huckabee more generally, while governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee pushed for socialized medicine for children in the state. That doesn't make him a good person, but certainly suggests that healthcare/childhood poverty concerns are not in the exclusive domain of the Democrats.

if you don't see the problem, then I don't know what to say. I hope the boot tastes good, at least.

This is false.

At most, I see state level requirements like this

And, yeah, poll tests are classic Jim crow tactics.

Here's an example of what to expect from the red states, especially after the Supreme Court gutted the voting rights act.

Instead of blaming the voters that showed up to vote, please reflect on why 10 million people who voted for Biden simply didn't vote for Harris and think about how elitist thoughts like "being too stupid to vote" in a democracy are the root of the problem.

Instead of calling voters stupid, try to understand why they feel hopeless under the current regime so that the Dems can re-establish the working class solidarity and big tent coalition that gave Obama a confortable majority. There is not path to 270 that can neglect the very real and tangible concerns of those "idiots".

What? I'm not "looking over" anyone or treating anyone as children. I don't understand how you can confuse compassion for paternalism. I'm saying they're full people capable of forming their own opinions about what is best for their interests and you're calling them idiots.

I can disagree with them without condemning them or insulting them and it's not clear why you would attack me or them.

I'm blaming them for exercising their rights? I'm blaming Trump voters for being idiots and working class Trump voters as being the biggest idiots.

So, they're idiots, but you're not blaming them? I'm not sure I understand. It's either because they're dumb (your position) or it's because they have one lever to pull and the Democratic party hasn't given them anything since FDR (my position). I'm actively sympathizing with them while you're insulting them.

it's a mobile application first, but desktop options are available. Good luck!

Signal is super user friendly. I got my family to switch over years ago and even my mom can manage it. Though, it's probably a tough sell for a kite flying group more generally. I do think it's probably a lower barrier than making a new social media account on some fediverse alternative, but hard to explain the advantages to people who don't care about privacy from Zuck.

I use signal (messenger app) groups, but my hobbies are often tech related, so that community is already there.

glad you can laugh at the genocide happening with your tax dollars right now.

I'd be happy to know what the difference is. Some meaningless red lines that never lead to sanctions?

They already depopulated North Gaza and the West Bank under Biden's watch. That literally already happened.

Homey, Nancy Pelosi is worth $240 million too. Boeing and Raytheon love Biden and Harris as much as they love Dick Cheney -- and they literally campaigned on that fact.