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[mapsontheweb]

Which countries have officially registered pirate party?

Pirate Party is a label adopted by political parties around the world 🌍. Pirate parties support civil rights ✊, direct democracy (including e-democracy) or alternatively participation in government, reform of copyright and patent laws ⚖️ to make them more flexible and open to encourage innovation and creativity 🌈, use of free and open-source software, free sharing of knowledge (open content and open access), information privacy 🔒, transparency, freedom of information, free speech, anti-corruption, net neutrality and oppose mass surveillance 📷, censorship and Big Tech.

by very_useful_maps

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[nickysfacts]

Happy Women’s Equality Day!🚺🗳️🚺

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The Vote is one of the most powerful right we have, never take it for granted or let your vote be used against your own or other sisters interests!

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[milanson]

I don’t know why, but I decided to draw the humanization of the ruling party in Russia. "United Russia"

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[racefortheironthrone]

Given that the New Deal was passed, at least in part, by a Faustian bargain with Southern Segregationists, do you think it might take a similar bargain to pass a New Deal 2.0, even if the US were to somehow elect a president of FDR's talent again?

The TLDR answer to your question is no, because the party alignments are completely different from where they were in the 1930s.

Even by the standards of American politics, the New Deal coalition was a particularly messy and complicated one: the core of the party was still the "solid" white South that was committed to Jim Crow even as it was internally divided between the corrupt "courthouse rings" machines and the populists who had fuelled Bryan's hegemony within the party and Northern immigrant workers, but even this core was radically different from the 19th century one in that the Northern contingent was increasingly made up of Jews, Poles, and other Eastern Europeans as opposed to being solely Irish.

These newer immigrants were not only more left-wing than a lot of their Irish antecedents, which created some tension with the white Southern delegation, but their very identity as Jews and Catholics were more "controversial" at a time when the revived Klan of the 1920s very much considered Jews, Catholics, and other "new immigrants" to be as much of a threat to their vision of an all-WASP America as non-white people. Hence why the Democratic Party divided around Al Smith.

And then in 1936, the coalition expanded when African-American voters in the North shifted en masse into the Democratic Party and immediately began acting as a bloc to push for both an expansion of the New Deal and to shift the Democratic Party away from Jim Crow and toward civil rights. (This period of the "long civil rights movement" has been a particularly fruitful one for historians.) This coalition that included both black voters and their mortal enemies was always going to be an unstable one, although it did persist for many decades.

However, in the decades since the 1990s, we've seen a partisan realignment that has made the American party system much more ideologically "compact" than it used to be - conservative white voters both in the South and the Midwest are now voting solidly Republican where they used to vote for conservative Democrats for Congress and local office, while college-educated voters are now voting much more Democratic than they were in the 1980s when there was still a lingering influence of the Rockefeller Republican.

That's not to say there's not internal negotiations within the party coalitions, but the divisions are much narrower than they used to be. Thus, a negotiation on a "Second New Deal" in the event of a Democratic trifecta would largely be between left-wing, liberal, and moderate Democrats - because there aren't really conservative Democrats any more. Similarly, the reverse on the Republican side would be between different flavors of right-wingers, because there aren't really any moderates or liberals left in the Republican coalition.

#history #historical analysis #us history #us politics #political parties #coalitions #party realignment

[fatherof1789]

My dearest Internet,

Throughout my time in modern-day America, I've noticed the Democratic and Republican parties seem to love twisting me to fit their narrative. It is because of the very fact I'm good for business that it becomes acceptable in their eyes to make it seem like I'm one of them.

It's truly a travesty, for I detest all political parties. This kind of division among Americans has ruined our American identity and made us feel disconnected. It's pitting us all against each other. This kind of burden needs to be fought.

What I command of you is that you do not let yourself be indoctrinated by this sort of division. Instead, fight against it. Educate yourself on such subjects with your experience and hard work, make your beliefs clear, and fight for them. Do not care for what any party has to tell you. Let you tell yourself.

Most Hbl & Obedient Servant, G: Washington.

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[ms-boogie-man]

Interactive poll time yo!!!

… and this is for posterity, so do be honest yo

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[ex-foster]

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[misforgotten2]

She has the string on the wrong finger.

McCall's - April 1952

#1952 #1950s #1950's #politics #political parties #vintage illustration #illustration #humour #funny #humor

[figtreeandvine]

So, I used to live in Ohio before I moved to Oregon. Ohio, where the Republican legislature banned abortion, forcing a pregnant ten-year-old to travel to another state to get an abortion.

But hey, I live in a "blue" state, Oregon, now. According to one profound political thinker in a post that went by recently, voting for Democrats is just as bad as voting for Republicans because Democrats in Democratic states never...etc.

So in Oregon, one of the things on the ballot first time I voted in 2018 was abortion. A ballot initiative wanted to stop Medicaid in Oregon from paying for abortions. Which made me go "Wait, what?" Because federal law in the US forbids federal funds from being used to fund abortion, including, you know, Medicaid funds!

And that's how I learned that the Democrats in the Oregon legislature had--years ago!--allocated state funds to pay for abortions for Oregon Medicaid recipients. They did this despite the opposition of the Republican legislators, despite the barriers enacted at the federal level by past Republican legislators. Because the Democrats thought, like I do, that abortion is part of medical care.

(The ballot initiative to stop this went down in flames, 64.5% to 34.5%. https://ballotpedia.org/Oregon_Measure_106,Ban_Public_Funds_for_Abortions_Initiative(2018) )

Oh, and one of the more recent ballot initiatives I had to vote on was one to force Republican legislators in Oregon to show up to work. Because despite not having the governorship, the state senate, or the state house of representatives, the Republicans deadlocked legislation by mass absenteeism, preventing the legislature from having the quorum necessary to do business. (https://ballotpedia.org/Oregon_Measure_113,Exclusion_from_Re-election_for_Legislative_Absenteeism_Initiative(2022))

But hey, no difference in the parties, amiright? /sarcasm

#us politics #political parties #vote like your life depends on it

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Political parties exist to secure responsible government and to execute the will of the people. From these great tasks both of the old parties have turned aside. Instead of instruments to promote the general welfare they have become the tools of corrupt interests, which use them impartially to serve their selfish purposes. Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics, is the first task of the statesmanship of the day. —Theodore Roosevelt, "The Progressive Covenant With The People" speech, Chicago, IL, Aug 6, 1912

[Scott Horton]

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[mapsontheweb]

Political position of the first party in the current polls for the next elections

by geo.universe

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[dougielombax]

Just leaving this here.

This is about the recent representation quota bullshit and fuckery by the Iraqi Supreme Court.

Again

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[milanson]

translation: "I take it we have agreed?"

no one asked for art with United Russia (Katya), I myself didn’t think that I would draw it, but on Pinterest I found a photo of some office siren and couldn’t resist

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[davidaugust]

A mashup of logos of Putin’s party in both the US and Russia by @codyhickssf on threads.

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[fatherof1789]

my friend unironically calls you Daddy Washington and I'm honestly afraid now. What do I do

Dear Anon Ymous:

I suppose one could consider me a "daddy" because I am called one of many "founding fathers" of America! Your friend has found peculiar vernacular to refer to me.

#america #george washington #american #american history #political #democrat #political parties #politics #republican #democracy #republic #liberal #liberty

[pewresearch]

Partisan polarization has long been a fact of political life in the United States, but deeply negative views of the opposing party are far more widespread than in the past.

Increasingly, Republicans and Democrats view not just the opposing party but also the people in that party in a negative light. Growing shares in each party now describe those in the other party as more closed-minded, dishonest, immoral and unintelligent than other Americans.

Perhaps the most striking change is the extent to which partisans view those in the opposing party as immoral. In 2016, about half of Republicans (47%) and slightly more than a third of Democrats (35%) said those in the other party were a lot or somewhat more immoral than other Americans. Today, 72% of Republicans regard Democrats as more immoral, and 63% of Democrats say the same about Republicans.

Read more: As Partisan Hostility Grows, Signs of Frustration With the Two-Party System

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