@bdlimm Just a voter here. It's so helpful to hear this kind of rounded perspective from someone with a defined viewpoint and a charitable idea of other people along the same path.
That said, can I ask an unforgivable question? What's your RC ballot going to look like?
I went a-searchin' for the #passthePROact advocacy website. Can't find it until page 3 if you use Google. DuckDuckGo? Number 1. Regardless of the new majority, it will be a fight.
It's amazing how rare this is, especially given how many of these were due to special circumstances. Bush lost because of Perot. Ford wasn't elected in the first place. Hoover, Great Depression. Taft had Roosevelt and Bull Moose. JQA wasn't really elected fairly the first time.
A man carried a monkey about for a show, and because he was a little wiser than the monkey, grew vain, and conceived himself as much wiser than seven men.
"millions of green energy jobs" is a complete abstraction that will never convince voters in the expanding red exurb sprawl that was gerrymandered out of reach in the first place, in part bc "the dems" are allergic to articulating social reform. Needed this from Mike Davis.
Looking at the victories of props 22 and 15 in CA should make everyone terrified for the dystopian futures that await even under the existing US liberal regime
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