What's some good news from election night in the US?
What's some good news from election night in the US?
I know we're all feeling doom and gloom but can we get a thread of some wins/good news from last night?
In Missouri, a red state...
Missourians vote to increase minimum wage, require paid sick leave
This is a good thread to have today. This is some encouraging news!
We have been down that road before. The state government will simply refuse to implement anything passed by ballot measure that they don't like.
I expect the abortion measure to take effect since it deletes out an existing law, but i wouldn't expect the minimum wage or paid sick leave to be worth the ink it was printed with.
I may have lost everything else, but I won on minimum wage and abortion.
I guess that will have to be my bellwether
Here in Seattle, most of the local and state elections went the way I was hoping. We got a governor who sued the Trump administration almost 100 times while he was attorney general.
who sued the Trump administration almost 100 times while he was attorney general.
Well I now worry for them since the DOJ will now be the arm of Trump to go after "political opponents" who "unfairly persecuted" him. :(
Delaware elected Sarah McBride, who is the first open transgender representative in Congress.
Georgia district attorney Fani Willis, who has been trying to prosecute Trump for trying to overturn the 2020 election, won reelection.
Washington Congressman Dan Newhouse, one of the ten Republicans who voted to impeach Trump (and one of two in that group who survived the subsequent midterm elections), successfully defended his seat again against a Trump-endorsed opponent. That's at least one Republican in the House who doesn't always rubber-stamp the party agenda.
Maybe we'll finally wake up and realize this country was not built on good intentions and is operating as intended.
Last Week Tonight will have more material than they know what to do with it
I doubt they will cover it. That would be a death sentence at this point.
Last Week Forever: "Surprise twist this week: Trump good? Here's why Trump is God and we should always worship him!"
Kentucky amendment 2, which would have redirected public funds to private schools, failed miserably. Of all the red states, Kentucky seems to be somewhat unique in its' strong resistance to Republican attacks on public education. It is, after all, why we have a Democratic governor. I only hope that continues to hold true.
I am still so glad that when I lived in KY for a few years, that I helped vote him in during mid-terms.
Colorado enshrined the right to abortion and removed anti-gay marriage language from their constitution.
Mark Robinson lost in NC?
Yep, and the important thing about keeping a Democrat governor is their veto power against one of the worst state congresses ever. I actually haven't looked into what changed at that level, but I don't have much hope that the GOP stranglehold was broken.
Nebraska got weed and another state elected the first openly transgender U.S. Representative. Tlaib retained her seat.
Also, I learned that a grade school classmate won a state rep seat in one of the midwest swing states earlier and that's good news to me, at least.
Massachusetts passed an unprecedented measure allowing ride share drivers to unionize.
The west coast stuck to its guns almost completely. Mark Robinson and Kari Lake lost their races incredibly enough.
Biden got some big stuff done with chips, infrastructure investment, and more. Unless Trump starts tearing down bridges and forcing people to remove heat pumps, some of Biden's stuff will be very difficult to reverse, physically or politically.
Are you kidding? California voted to keep slavery, and against rent control, and against the AIDS organization who was funding the rent control measure.
Washington got a really awesome governor.
Liberals are ripe for radicalization and joining Leftists. Not all, of course, some are shifting rightward, but many are disillusioned and shifting left.
For anyone reading, I can give a basic intro to Marxism reading list if you want. For starters, I recommend Blackshirts and Reds. To know fascism, who it serves, how it rises, and how to stop it is immensely useful.
Just want to say: Thanks for your perennial civility as well as continuing to offer learning resources for people interested in any "sect" of leftist ideology.
Appreciate the kind words! It's a tender time, liberals are both more open and more closed to radicalization, depending on how they are interacted with. Lenin has a fantastic quote:
Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.
In shining light on the causes of evil, illustrating ways out of these darker times, and in teaching how to properly struggle against evil, we can radicalize numerous liberals and strengthen solidarity.
Unfortunately, I think liberals are going to continue taking the easy route, which is not really having much of a platform other than “we’re not Trump supporters”
Depends, many seem more receptive to theory as of late.
The heat death of the universe will eventually come
Can we accelerate that timeline? Say to like Jan 20, 2025 (let the kids enjoy one last chance at any snow we might be lucky enough to get)?
Well, the sun will explode in 5 billion years, but if that's too long, don't worry, it's only 1 billion until solar winds carry off half of Earth's water.
Split ticket scenarios seemed common, which can mean party loyalty is at an all time low.
Hopefully liberals will wake up and see they can't beat fascism, they have to embrace leftism if they want to beat it.
The people want populism and they no longer want the status quo. The right capitalized on this while the liberals went the moderate-right route, and it failed them. The only solution left is to embrace left wing politics. Unfortunately, I doubt the democrat party will be to keen on the idea of becoming left wing.
It gives the boomers another chance to solidify their legacy as the worst generation in human history. In a way that helps all of us.
Many Zoomers voted for him too, unfortunately
Out of 10 pro abortion state measures 7 passed (one still undecided i think), and only 1 anti abortion measure passed.
We kept our democratic congresswoman, and the tax to help the schools passed.
We won't have to vote any more, so all those people who never wanted to vote in the past won't need to worry their little heads any more.
Well, you won’t have to remember Election Day, because this was the last time you will be able to vote on a national level.
Jeff Jackson for NC's AG
The monsters who want us all dead might not take all three branches...! Maybe...!
Good news is we don’t have much time left
Trump won.
I'm curious, what part of that do you think will be good for anyone who isn't a rich which male?
I'd tell you to GFY, but you already have & just don't realize it yet.