I don’t understand why America can’t do the same and get rid of this ongoing shitstorm?
TL;DR: Because the broken status quo is super profitable and fixing it would mean returning stolen power and eventually wealth to regular people
Longer version:
Because this is what the money and strategy industries behind the politicians want.
If everyone was automatically registered to vote when eligible, many more people would vote.
If many more people, especially from the demographics most hindered right now, voted, the Republican party would cease to be a viable party without changing some basic policy principles.
If the Republican party was no longer viable, Democrats would have no cover for running on Republican light policy positions under the unofficial slogan “vote for us to avoid something even worse”.
If Democrats could no longer do that, the party would split along ideological lines.
With the Republicans gone and the Democrats split with many of them actually left of center, the ultra-rich people bribing both parties as well as the consulting industry selling various blends of status quo or worse strategies as the only options would lose a shitload of power to the will of the actual people.
Social media has been flooded with accusations that the Venezuelan gang has taken over an Aurora apartment complex. Both the city and Aurora Police Department have not confirmed those claims.
Yes that’s unsurprising and yes he’s probably a bad person, but also I feel the need to say that’s a really shitty thing to do to him. Even shitty people deserve to not be targeted by racist remarks.
Oh, so the government doing its job to incentivize the market to move in positive directions and closures which are highly coordinated and agreed to by the union are bad now? Lemmy, never change.
And I’m sure all the prisoners in the US are so thankful to have such an impressive rehabilitation system to ensure they don’t commit more crimes.
Just because the “official” purpose is one thing, don’t think for a second anyone who profits from it gives a shit. From the company manager who gets a bonus to the politician they paid off.
“It’s a little late to play the Venezuelan gang card. Certainly, there are other parts of the city that we’re looking at, that we’re concerned about that. But the problems in this building certainly precede any problems with Venezuelan gangs,” Coffman said. - kdvr.com/…/mayor-out-of-state-slumlords-to-blame-…
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I’m in Arizona and was (still am, because absolutely fuck Kari Lake) planning on voting for Ruben. Hell, I was as excited to vote for Ruben as I am to vote for Kamala.
This is extremely disappointing. They call it a shift to appeal to moderates and independents, but that just makes me question how fucked our politics are if someone like Ruben Gallego isn’t already considered a moderate. Kamala is a moderate, Walz is a moderate, our entire Democratic party is moderate.
I’m so tired of bowing to right-wing fuckwits. I’m so tired of ceding ground at every damn opportunity. Human rights are not radical. Police reform is not radical. Workers’ rights are not radical. Do fucking better, Devil Dog.
It’s a bad design, but it is working as intended by the people who fought against establishing a true democracy in the US originally.
The electoral system and gerrymandering make it so a two party solution is the only real system that works; and one of those parties will always be moving away from the other, while the other has to move closer to the middle every time to “recapture” the voters who also shifted further from center.
It’s a bad system, and it needs an overhaul/update desperately. Other countries that have established democratic systems of government since the US was established (and is technically, on record, the “oldest” democracy. If you squint.) have superior constitutions and systems of government that ensure free and fair electoral practices where candidates don’t have to appeal to moderates because even edge case parties are still represented in their house of representatives.
Yeah I agree, it’s encouraging for the short term, and I must emphasize that it is absolutely imperative that we defeat the GOP in this election over anything else.
However it’s concerning to see the Dems tracking to the right inch by inch. We need to make sure we’re making allies on the left while we do elect Kamala, so that we have a stronger leftist coalition for the coming years.
I, for one, am shocked that the company founded by GREAT AMERICAN Henry Ford would be against the ideas of things like diversity, equity or inclusion. I know that the PATRIOT Henry Ford would definitely be in favor of those things, but the Jews would never let him tell anyone.
Hello fellow Jew! Would you like to join me in suppressing Henry Ford’s positive views on race relations? We might even have time to work our way reverse-alphabetically through Edison, Disney, and Dahl.
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