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I'm not.
We've seen little other than the loss of economic and social liberty in the last 40 years.
99% of voters still choose the same two parties in charge of it like clockwork.
Instead of amazement, I feel cynical resignation.
The impending doom of the fascist right is the only thing keeping me voting for the dems. If we had rank choice I’d be so much happier voting every election.
That's the thing. I look around and have no reason to think fascism is impending. It's here.
Women are getting jailed for miscarriage, cops are hanging out lackadaisically outside a school shooting on their phones with zero consequences, homeless jumped 12% in one year, and the big issue is sending hundreds of billions more off to other countries' wars.
The only plus is that things have gotten so bad it's forced unions to become more aggressive and unyielding, which has effected more positive change for workers than the ruling parties have achieved in decades.
I don't know if you're into podcasts, but Adam conover's podcast Factually is really great. They have an episode called " what's the left gets wrong about the right" and it dives into how the right is primarily a reactionary movement to social and economic progress to try to maintain power for the owning and ruling class. It's a really great episode and it hits a lot on some of the similar points that you were mentioning with the unions. It's definitely worth checking it out If you've got like an hour to kill, It's super dope.
I'll do that. Thanks for the info!
Conover’s rant about the Patagonia founder’s billion dollar donation to avoid taxes and set his kids up is really good too.
I didn’t say it’s impending. The doom is what’s impending from the rise of fascism. You’re right though, things are already fucked badly. I’m just voting to keep democracy around long enough to grave a shot at fixing it someday for my child.
There are days when it feels like arms are going to be the only way out and that’ll be a fucking nightmare that will ruin millions more lives.
the big issue is ~~sending hundreds of billions more off to other countries’ wars.~~ the income inequality between billionaires and working America
The income inequality is what's going to get Trump reelected, sadly.
Are you talking about the Ohio woman, because she wasn't arrested for a miscarriage?
Sure, you can argue she got arrested for "abuse of a corpse", but
You're leaving out the part where she tried to shove it down the toilet, then left it there for an extended period of time when that didn't work.
Yes, people afraid of going to jail for their bodily function will behave in unpredictable manners.