#Elections

[kropotkindersurprise]

May 2, 2024 - Fifteen police cars were burned down at a police training facility in Portland. Good job, Democrats! It seems like your love for the genocidal Israeli state and police brutality has brought the Cool Zone™ back, right before an election. Masterfully played. [video]

#direct action #acab #police #stop cop city #portland #usa #fire #police car #2024 #free palestine #palestine #democrats #elections #gif #cool zone #genocide joe #biden

[purpleillusn]

Reminder for those of you in Britain to vote in the local elections tomorrow (May 2nd) to kick out the tories on your local level!!

#politics #uk politics #elections #living dead post

[mapsontheweb]

1908 US Presidential Election

#maps #1908 #us #elections

[decolonize-the-left]

I used keyword: universities in Project2025.

To nobody's surprise the censorship across US campuses is fueled by religious extremism, capitalism, and nationalism. Even worse, things still seem to be going according to plan for project 2025 (huge thanks to Biden for that btw).

My guess is that accusations of infiltration and having spies amongst their ranks will be an excuse we start seeing in news media a lot more often as both a method of discrediting university protesters and pushing all these laws to "protect Americans" from "foreign adversaries" and "national threats"

And last screenshot:

#project 2025 #biden #trump #elections #third party #columbia #genocide #current events #news #usa #democrats #HR 6090 #reblog #important #signal boost

[doratonkslupingaunt]

The UK election results are INSANE.

I mean it. That country went through a string of prime ministers so cursed: a man who fucked a dead pig's mouth, caused Brexit and fucked off; a woman who ran through fields of wheat and also was called a second Thatcher; a woman who the media put in a competition with a head of lettuce and the lettuce won; Boris fucking Johnson; and finally, Rishi Sunak who sucks so hard I have nothing funny to say about him.

And this is the first time the Tories lost SO FUCKING TRAGICALLY in all that time. The Tories broke the UK. The people have had enough.

I think God might, after all, exist. And he just kicked conservative ass.

#politics #elections #uk #britain #england #scotland #northern ireland #united kingdom #tories #labour

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

The lesser evil is getting more evil by the day.

#genocide joe #joe biden #democrats #gaza solidarity encampment #Columbia #ccny #nypd #donald trump #imperialism #elections

[reasonsforhope]

It was a really, really good political news day today in the US (4/4/23)

For anyone who hasn't heard, not only did Trump get arrested, but also:

-We found out that the legal case against him in this prosecution (stormy daniels hush money case) is SIGNIFICANTLY stronger than people had speculated. Like, wow do they have receipts.

-In fact, the evidence was so entirely there that the new question on prime time news (well, at least on msnbc lol) is "Hey, why didn't the federal courts prosecute him for this already???)

-Trump FAILED UTTERLY in his attempts to rally mass protests and demands for "death and destruction" if he was arrested. There was no violence at the arrest at all, and as for Trump supporters? They failed to show up in any kind of numbers--reportedly only about a hundred people were protesting the arrest

-We (aka Judge Janet Protasiewicz) WON what is widely considered to be the most consequential election of 2023, a Wisconsin state supreme court election that handed control of the state supreme court to the left

-Because of that election win, it is now extremely likely that abortion will be legal in Wisconsin, and that Wisconsin won't be able to throw out electors in the 2024 presidential election

-ALSO bc of this, Wisconsin, the most gerrymandered state in the country, will probably get nonpartisan, accurate maps, which COULD FLIP THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES in 2024

-In Chicago, Brandon Johnson, union organizer and former teacher, won the election for mayor, in a decisive win progressives, esp for meaningful criminal justice reform and investment in mental health (whereas the other guy was campaigning on hiring hundreds of new cops and being super tough on crime)

#united states #us politics #wisconsin #supreme court #criminal justice reform #progressive politics #democrats #VOTING MATTERS #brandon johnson #janet protasiewicz #state supreme court #elections #gerrymandering #chicago #illinois #mayor #donald trump #trump indictment #trump arrest #alvin bragg #grand jury #manhattan #stormy daniels #good news #hope

[destielmemenews]

source

#destiel meme #destiel meme news #united states #us news #news #us politics #abortion laws #abortion rights #abortion #ohio #ohio news #state elections #elections #election #reproductive rights #reproductive health #constitutional rights

[snarksandkisses]

#harm reduction #voting #2022 midterm elections #there are children inside #vote blue #poetry #elections #us #usa #Kyle Tran Myhre

[thoughtportal]

Scotland and the UK

#tiktok #scotland #voting #elections #united kingdom #human rights #england #emma roddick #independance #social safety net

[to-dance-beneath-the-diamond-sky]

US folks living in New York, Wisconsin, Connecticut, or Rhode Island:

today (April 2, 2024) is the Democratic primary election! please please go vote against genocide!

the Vote Uncommitted campaign is sending Biden a message that voters demand a permanent ceasefire now! How it works is people vote uncommitted or undecided or other in large numbers, which will show the democrats that they WILL NOT win the general election in the Fall and Trump will become president unless Biden and the rest of the Dems immediately change their policy on Israel and Gaza. Michigan already turned out over 100,000 people voting uncommitted, which is MORE than the margin Biden won MI by last election and more than the margin Trump won MI by in 2016. Voting Uncommitted matters! So if you’re a US citizen who’s able to vote, make sure you do!!

each state has a different ballot option so please refer to this graphic to see how you should vote in your state!

#free palestine #gaza #biden #genocide joe #us politics #elections #primary elections #united states #voting #Vote #trump #palestine #vote uncommitted #american politics #free gaza #boost #please reblog #please share #presidential election #new york #wisconsin #rhode island #connecticut

[mapsontheweb]

Map of NYC voter turnout in 2023 by City Council district

by u/nycvotes

#maps #nycvotes #nyc #elections #2023

[blindchat]

Happy Birthday Y’all 

Someone shoot bbc to make sure they stay down

#nov 5 #destiel #politics #elections #we won but at what cost #bury your gays #dean #castiel #spn #bnha #dabi my little meow meow #putin #i feel skeevy tagging putin but I hope he knows that his continued silence on destiel is very telling #election #superwholock

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Working class Dems who campaign on economics beat Trumpists in elections

I'm on tour with my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me FRIDAY NIGHT (Mar 22) in TORONTO, then SUNDAY (Mar 24) with LAURA POITRAS in NYC, then Anaheim, and more!

The Democratic Party Pizzaburger Theory of Electioneering is: half the electorate wants a pizza, the other half wants a burger, so we'll give them all a pizzaburger and make them all equally dissatisfied, thus winning the election:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/16/that-boy-aint-right/#dinos-rinos-and-dunnos

But no one wants a pizzaburger. The Biden administration's approach of letting the Warren/Sanders wing pick the antitrust enforcers while keeping judicial appointments in the Manchin-Synematic universe is a catastrophe in which progressive Dem regulators (who serve one term) are thwarted by corporatist Dem judges (who serve for life):

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/14/making-good-trouble/#the-peoples-champion

The Democrats – like all parties in two-party systems – are a coalition; in this case, a "progressive" liberal-left coalition with liberals serving as senior partners, steering the party and setting its policies. These corporate dems like to color themselves as "neutral" technocrats with "realistic, apolitical" policies that represent what's best for the country:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/05/not-that-naomi/#if-the-naomi-be-klein-youre-doing-just-fine

This sets up the left wing of the party as the starry-eyed, unrealistic radicals whose policies are unpopular and will lose elections. But for a decade, grassroots-funded primary challenges have made it possible to test this theory, by putting leftist politicians on the ballot in front of voters, especially in tight races with far-right Republicans (that is, exactly the kinds of races that the corporate wing of the party says we can't afford to take chances on).

The 2022 midterms included enough races to start testing these theories – and, unlike traditional midterms, these races enjoyed high voter turnout, thanks to the unpopularity of GOP positions like abortion bans, book bans and anti-trans laws. Jacobin teamed up with the Center for Working-Class Politics, Yougov and the Center for Work and Democracy at ASU and analyzed those races:

https://images.jacobinmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/11134429/CWCP-Report-2024.pdf

Their conclusion: candidates from working-class backgrounds who campaigned on economic policies like high-quality jobs, higher minimum wages, a jobs guarantee, ending offshoring and outsourcing, building infrastructure and bringing manufacturing back to the US won with a 50% share of the vote in rural and working-class districts. Dems who didn't lost with a 35% share of the vote:

https://prospect.org/politics/2024-03-18-how-actually-existing-democrats-run-for-office/

In other words, in the kinds of districts where Trumpist politicians are beating Democrats, running on "left populist" policies beats Trumpist politicians.

That's the good news: if Dems recruit leftist, working class politicians and put them up for office on policies that address the material reality of voters' lives, they can beat fascist GOP candidates.

Now for the bad news: the Democratic establishment has no interest in getting these candidates onto the ballot. Working-class candidates, by definition, lack the networks of deep-pocketed cronies who can fund their primary campaigns. Only 2.3% of Dem candidates come from blue-collar backgrounds (if you include "pink-collar" professions like nursing and teaching, the number goes up to 5.9%):

https://jacobin.com/2024/03/left-populists-working-class-voters

All of this confirms the findings of Trump's Kryoptonite, an earlier Jacobin/CWCP research project that polled working-class voters on preferences for hypothetical candidates, finding that working-class candidates with economically progressive policies handily beat out Republicans, including MAGA Republicans:

https://images.jacobinmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/08125102/TrumpsKryptonite_Final_June2023.pdf

Since the Clinton-Blair years, "progressives" have abandoned economic populism ("It's not a burning ambition for me to make sure that David Beckham earns less money" -T. Blair) and pursued a "third way" that seeks to replace half the world's of supply white, male oligarchs with diverse oligarchs from a variety of backgrounds and genders. We were told that this was done in the name of winning elections with "modern" policies that replaced old-fashioned ideas about decent pay, decent jobs, and worker power.

These policies have delivered a genocide-riven world on the brink of several kinds of existential catastrophe. They're a failure. The pizzaburger party didn't deliver safety, nor prosperity – and it also can't deliver elections.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/20/actual-material-conditions/#bread-and-butter

#pluralistic #elections #political science #democrats #democrats in disarray #class #class war #us politics #pizzaburger

[asm5129]

Sorely needed good news.

@reasonsforhope @hopepunk-humanity would you be willing to share?

#good news #reasons for hope #be kind #trans rights #elections #us politics #lgbtqia #abortion

[this-is-me19]

Accepting your children as they are no matter what, AKA Radical Acceptance, will save their life.

#lgbt #lgbtqia+ #lgbtq community #lgbtqia #elections #politics #laws #trans #lesbian #gay #bisexual #personal #pansexual #omnisexual #asexual #queer #queer gender #agender #two spirit #intersex #lgbtqiia+ #USA #world laws