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The battle for control of the Virginia legislature is still hanging in the balance, but the first round of returns from Tuesday’s off-year elections delivered one clear message: abortion rights are popular, no matter when or where they are on the ballot.

Good News. Kentucky re-elected Democratic governor. Virginia flipped house of delegates to Democrats, gaining complete control of state legislature.

Kentucky shows is that even in red states, Democrats have the numbers. This shows how critical showing up and voting is.

GOP/Republicans bad for climate change. They deny it, say it isn’t humans, etc. Democrats at least acknowledge we need to do something.

For those outside the US, we have first past the post voting, which inevitably leads to two political parties.

State governments hold a lot of power. They are almost completely over sovereign with certain restrictions and reservations of power by our federal government.

GOP (aka Republicans) = Right to far right. I.e. libertarian, fascist, conservative, Christian nationalist.

Democrat = center right to far left. I.e. conservative, progressive, socialist, neoliberal

Democrats have greater numbers by a good margin, but have lower voter turnout and are disenfranchised electorial due to gerrymandering.

  • crusa187@lemmy.ml
    41·
    1 year ago

    Decriminalizing weed, voting rights, student loan forgiveness, all were supposed to be “day 1” initiatives. None have been successfully delivered and he’s almost through his first term. Biden only cares about keeping corporate oligarchs in power, and the DNC is playing with fire foisting this garbage candidate on us while risking the criminal traitor Trump as an alternative. It’s risky, it’s greedy, and it’s wrong.

    • Jaderick@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      Agreed. The DNCs only saving Grace is that they aren’t Trump which is only a winning strategy now after they royally fucked up with Hillary, the candidate that had a 20+ year smear campaign against her (on top of the other problems). I don’t have confidence that they learned from any of this, which could push another fascist candidate into power who may be more competent. Here’s hoping Americans start learning to read through the bullshit lmao.

      I ask people to read up on the history of the labor movement (Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, Battle for Blair mountain, mining unions etc) as that’s what started changing my American propagandized perspective.