Tag: American politics

Republicans Are So Afraid Of Fair Elections, They Want To Take Away Your Right To Vote For Senator

reverseracism:

ananiujitha:

yipyap:

karadin:

quakerjoe:

This one is pretty fucking serious. It’s not about voter fraud, it’s about shitcanning everyone’s ability and right to vote.

Instead of being elected by the people, Senators would be chosen by the State legislatures, guaranteeing that the majority party would pick Senators of their own party.

If there is a vacancy the Governor would appoint a Senator for the remainder of the term. The pick could not be changed by the legislature or the public.

State legislators can recall a Senator at any time.

.If successful, they will reverse one of the great strides toward democracy in American history: the 1913 decision to end the corrupt practice of letting state legislators barter off Senate seats in backroom deals with campaign donors and lobbyists.

It seems gerrymandering the House is not enough for Republicans who want to completely shut out opposing voices. Yet, gerrymandering does fit with a long-term plan to turn America into a permanent single-party-rule nation. 

With control of 32 state legislatures, the GOP would have an easy time hand-picking fascist-conservatives to fill up the senate.

WHAT. THE FUCK

This means, as long as one party can gerrymander their statehouses, they can pick their senators too.

See, they call themselves the “silent majority” which is a lie they very much are the political minority.

Usually, the only way they’re able to win elections (whether they be national or state wide) is by dishonesty, lies, trickery, double speak, and making voting polls difficult to reach.

Pathetic.

Republicans Are So Afraid Of Fair Elections, They Want To Take Away Your Right To Vote For Senator

neoliberalismkills:

neoliberalismkills:

so here’s a thought: who cares if food stamp recipients test positive for drugs. we still deserve food.

this has been the single most controversial post I’ve ever made and it’s literally just saying drug users deserve food lmao

and an extension of this is that even if you honest to God think drug users don’t deserve food (which is just as fucked up as the OP is pointing out), denying people food stamps also frequently means you think their families don’t deserve food either. That is doubly fucked up.

darth-lesbane:

trueneutr4l:

darth-lesbane:

darth-lesbane:

Imho Chelsea running is a good thing. She won’t be able to affect the system, but her platform gives the left some much-needed exposure.

Like the Overton window exists, and a radical trans woman running for office is going to make a lot more waves and connect with a LOT more people than a 500 word Tumblr essay denouncing electoral politics.

Noooo stoppppp

Why are y’all obsessed with her running just bc she’s trans????

What are her credentials?

What are her skills?

We can’t go through this another term, even if it’s not for president.

Stop sensationalizing Chelsea Manning.

I’m excited for her running because she has radical politics, not because she’s trans (although that’s great as well). The problem with Trump isn’t that he’s under-qualified, it’s that he’s a racist, misogynistic, rich, neoliberal fuckwad who deregulates everything in sight and doesn’t care one bit for anyone but himself. Chelsea, on the other hand, was incarcerated and psychologically tortured for exposing US war crimes. She’s got morality, something severely lacking in the government.

We’ve got plenty of perfectly qualified, skilled career politicians who don’t bat an eyelash when dozens of civilians violently die by drone strike. Not to mention, plenty of politicians get elected whose only credentials are a business degree and a couple runs as auditor and yet they’re seen as perfectly qualified candidates.

feministlikeme:

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

weneedboldstrokes:

positive-pebble:

elrond50:

mewiet:

radio-freedunmovin:

amuzed1:

platholyte:

Vote 👏🏼 in 👏🏼 the 👏🏼 2018 👏🏼 Midterm 👏🏼 Elections 👏🏼

SERIOUSLY

If you vote in Democrats, they’ll be able to block Trump’s policies

It’s not just that they’ll be able to block Drumpf’s policies for the (hopefully only) remaining two years: the
entire House of Representatives is up for re-election in 2018. Whoever
wins the House in 2018 will still control it in 2020, when we have our
next census. This means we voting districts will get to be redrawn and if Republicans retain control of the House in
2020, they will make gerrymandering even worse than it is now, which
already favors them.

But the odds are severely in favor of Republicans for 2018. The election is ridiculously lopsided:
23 Democrat seats and both (there are only 2) Independent seats (who
Caucus with Dems) will be up for the taking compared to only 8
Republican seats.

Not to mention midterm election turnout is always far less than POTUS elections and Republicans consistently turn out for midterms while non-Republicans fail to show up worse than they normally do.

It gets worse. This is the Senate race in 2018:

  1. Arizona – Currently Republican
  2. California – Currently Democrat
  3. Connecticut
    – Currently Democrat

  4. Delaware
    – Currently Democrat

  5. Florida
    – Currently Democrat

  6. Hawaii
    – Currently Democrat

  7. Indiana
    – Currently Democrat

  8. Maine
    – Currently Independent
  9. Maryland
    – Currently Democrat

  10. Massachusetts
    – Currently Democrat

  11. Michigan
    – Currently Democrat

  12. Minnesota
    – Currently Democrat

  13. Mississippi
    – Currently Republican

  14. Missouri
    – Currently Democrat

  15. Montana
    – Currently Democrat

  16. Nebraska
    – Currently Republican

  17. Nevada
    – Currently Republican

  18. New Jersey
    – Currently Democrat

  19. New Mexico
    – Currently Democrat

  20. New York
    – Currently Democrat

  21. North Dakota
    – Currently Democrat

  22. Ohio
    – Currently Democrat

  23. Pennsylvania
    – Currently Democrat

  24. Rhode Island
    – Currently Democrat

  25. Tennessee
    – Currently Republican

  26. Texas
    – Currently Republican

  27. Utah
    – Currently Republican

  28. Vermont

    – Currently Independent

  29. Virginia
    – Currently Democrat

  30. Washington
    – Currently Democrat

  31. West Virginia
    – Currently Democrat

  32. Wisconsin
    – Currently Democrat

  33. Wyoming
    – Currently Republican

All of the states in bold were awarded to Drumpf, 11 of which are currently held by Democrats. Republicans hold a 52 seat majority right now. If they can maintain the 8 seats they have to defend, they only need 8 Democrat and/or Independent seats to have a 60 seat supermajority and the power to pass basically anything they want under Trump for two years.

If you think it’s catastrophic now (and it is), imagine Drumpf and the Republicans with a 60 seat supermajority for two years plus a Republican House with the power to redistrict in 2020.

And that is why organizing now is critical. Getting people to run against every GOP House Member and tying every action by Trump to them. Make the 2018 elections ALL ABOUT TRUMP. This is also about taking back Governor’s Mansions. 

It is NOT impossible, but it requires effort. 2018 elections efforts SHOULD ALREADY BE UNDERWAY!

@ all my american followers

Important note: States redistrict. Not Congress. So, while it’s important to keep Trump from making gains it’s also crazy important to work on state legislature races.

ALL OF THIS

THE CENSUS IS CRITICAL. 

The gerrymandering in this country is HORRENDOUS. If the GOP is in control when that happens, I truly fear for the future of democracy.