“If the purges [of potential voters], challenges and ballot rejections were random, it wouldn’t matter. It’s anything but random. For example, an audit by the State of Washington found that a Black voter was 400% more likely than a white voter to have their mail-in ballot rejected. Rejection of Black in-person votes, according to a US Civil Rights Commission study in Florida, ran 14.3% or one in seven ballots cast.”
"[…] Democracy can win* despite the 2.3% suppression headwind.
And that’s our job as Americans: to end the purges, the vigilante challenges, the ballot rejections and the attitude that this is all somehow OK."
How do we get from “small mutual aid groups” to “fix the genocidal two party system?” If the answer is incrementalism, it is no answer. Incrementalism got us here.
Radical change on the local level. Instead of trying to turn whole states by increment, turn towns and districts radically. Subvert federal decisions locally, and if you provide a schema for others to follow.
I’m still not seeing how working for my local food bank (the nearest pin on the map when I look up mutual aid. Next closest one is like 4 hours away) is going to get anywhere towards changing the bipartisan pro-genocide hegemony.
You can help people, shield then from government overreach and change their minds by talking to them instead of just shouting into a megacorp-censored online void.
That’s how the consies get people as well, churches being one of the last places you can socialise and discuss civics.
It will of course take a lot of people doing this, but that’s how organising people works. The alternative is doing a Luigi, but that has dire personal consequences.