• DarthBueller@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You forget that California actually allows for a fair amount of direct democracy - the South will cling to Republican government and will fight any movement toward direct democracy and ballot initiatives because every effort to appeal to their base would be defeated.

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      1 year ago

      True but if we get enough dems in office, we naturally progress towards stronger ballot measures. We can’t do anything while Republicans are in office.

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        1 year ago

        And it will take some bizarre set of circumstances to ever get the GOP out of state office because they have gerrymandered everything to fuck, and the rural base is seemingly forever captured by the GOP, and the states’ supreme courts are GOP, and …

        I frequently fantasize about Canada, where the assholes are fewer in number. Though I was recently in upstate New York and I realized how much I fucking miss the Northeast.

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          There’s a lot of Black people in the South. That’s where we need to focus our efforts. Stacey Abrams style.

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            I hear you, but the black community has been saying the system is rigged (regardless of who wins) for far longer than nearly anyone else. I don’t know how you go from massive disengagement to engagement given the levels of distrust that exist. Or how you get black politicians elected to office outside of statewide office or city government. The youth vote decided to suddenly show up, but it’s not enough by itself.