conservatives: leftists can’t win on economics so resort to ~cultural marxism~ wherein they instead try to win a culture war also conservatives: feminism is the reason you’re unsatisfied in life and gender neutral bathrooms are why your boss deserves to live off your labour
I don’t understand why young people on this website keep using the real issue of voter suppression as an excuse to be content with or apathetic toward the idea of non-participation. If your vote didn’t matter, as some suggest, they wouldn’t be suppressing it in the first place, and therefore any complacency is complicit with that suppression. The idea that a faction of our elected government is afraid of the change you can effect should spur you on, not give you pause.
Using the existence of voter suppression as a reason not to vote when you’re capable of voting is a smack in the face to anyone who wants to but can’t.
In light of the recent idiotic decision from the Senate, I am going to remember that there were incredibly brave women who spoke their truth and are now receiving crap for it. I stand with them.
you should probably ask an american lol but i’ll tell you this. ppl have already been losing the rights they fought for all this time, i read a lot of american right wing books and they’re in the end game of a 50 year plan. they invested their money into book presses to get their ideas out, local radio stations, tv, they put their ppl on the school boards, the water boards, the local council of the 5th district of whatever and they built this shit from the ground up. sure the climb wasn’t that steep since they’re after all doing what the slave owners who created this system that runs on the blood of the third world wanted but it’s undeniable to me that they know how to do grassroots on a level the white left can’t approach. and white liberals direct their focus mainly to major elections and ignore all the little positions on the ground. activism isn’t only giving speeches and trying to get yourself elected senator it’s also licking stamps, doing small community based organizing that connects with the work others are already doing, and a lot of drudge work. it’s not glamorous but if you don’t do it they will. dispense with all illusions. you are living in a white supremacist country that exports its horrors all over the world and is responsible for the misery and deaths of unthinkable numbers of ppl. the system works as its supposed to. the ruling class hates you and will not be voted out so make them fear you. start with that in mind rather than “what went wrong?”
In the town I live in, there’s only one place to get the state-required voter ID. It’s way out beyond the end of the bus line, and its hours are inconvenient and unpredictable. Also, the IDs cost like $30; the people who passed the voter ID law obviously didn’t think that was a budget-breaker for anyone who MATTERED.
If you have difficulty getting a voter ID, here are some thoughts:
– Contact a church. (I wish I could say contact ANY church, but to be honest, if you look unconventional, and you don’t know which churches in your town are the progressive ones, look for a Unitarian church. I suspect most synagogues would be more helpful than most evangelical churches, but I don’t know that from personal experience.)
When I was a church secretary, if someone had called and said, “I want to register to vote, but I don’t have a car and I don’t have $30 for an ID,” I’m pretty sure our entire governing board would have been lining up to help you out.
In this part of the country, nuns are a good bet, too.
– Contact the local Democratic Party office.
– Contact a YMCA or a YWCA. Did you know that fighting racism is actually part of the Y’s charter? Pretty sure somebody in that office will be able to help you get the ID you need to register.
– Go to your town’s website and look for a pro-diversity organization – a Multicultural Awareness Center, something like that. Give them a call.
– Call your library reference desk and ask if they know of anyone who could help.
I don’t actually think this would help, but it would be interesting: Call the local office of your senators and your representative, and ask if they can help you get a voter ID. At least it might be entertaining to hear them sputter.
I’m expecting salary drops among higher-wage positions, some benefits cuts (especially regarding health insurance), and cut hours to follow as well. Also increased federal workplace violations, since they won’t be prosecuted – that is, at a higher rate than is already happening.
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell said Tuesday that the U.S. economy appears to be in the midst of a “remarkably positive” period that is unprecedented in modern history.
The Fed is predicting that unemployment will remain below 4 percent through 2020 and that inflation will stay low — around 2 percent — during that time. This has never happened in modern U.S. history. The last time unemployment was that low for several years, in the 1960s, it triggered high inflation, but the central bank and many outside forecasters don’t think that will occur this time.
“This historically rare pairing of steady, low inflation and very low unemployment is a testament to the fact we remain in extraordinary times,” Powell said in a speech at the annual meeting of the National Association for Business Economics (NABE) in Boston. “I was asked at last week’s news conference whether these forecasts are too good to be true — a reasonable question.”
Irregular reminder that an underreported factor in the jobless numbers is that they only reflect *active* job seekers. People who are long term unemployed or underemployed aren’t counted for the official numbers.
Underemployed being the key factor nowadays, given the gig/contractor economy and chronic, mass understaffing/part-timing within large companies. The job market is currently gamed to look robust and does not reflect reality (I think maybe 10% of my dash currently has full-time/salaried employment).
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