The way I always put it, moving left may not win us elections (and those imagining a quiet leftist supermajority need to talk to more normies), but sure as shit it's been proven that neither will moving right.

Moving left will improve the country, while moving right will make it worse.

Ceteris paribus, the choice should be obvious: moving left isn't a panacea for our electoral problems, but it is still very much the preferable choice. Caution may be called for on specific issues, but in general, the American electorate is not very ideological in any coherent sense. 'Left' and 'right' are feelings for them, and they'll side with whichever 'sounds good' at a given moment.

Let's purge the Dems of these ancient neoliberal ghouls and move fucking left. I'm so fucking tired. If we still lose, at least this time we'll lose with a little basic fucking dignity. Which isn't much, but still a hell of a lot better than selling out and losing anyway.

Texas doesn’t allow for citizens to gather signatures to put something directly on the ballot. The politicians control everything.

CA citizens used a citizen-led ballot initiative to take the redistricting keys away from the legislature. Stuff like this has to go before voters in CA.

The people are more in control in CA.

"Going high", in this case referring to using democratic principles to govern? That's not going high, that's how the system is supposed to work.

It HAD to go before a vote in Cali. We didn’t have a choice politically since our independent election map commission is enshrined into the state constitution. In Texas they don’t have anything remotely enshrined into their constitution so for us here in Cali we had to put it to the people and even then it’s sorta weak since it has an exact end date in 2030. It’s only here for one cycle before it falls off and goes back. Which could be dangerous if the other states don’t stop gerrymandering.

That or we’ll just leave next time.

the gop has been doing that anyway. both parties have, but gop has been much more brazen and extreme with it. so if all states do the max the red states should get much more diminishing returns while blue states gain more seats for Dems.

Other blue states need to do their part, but doing “their own prop 50” probably won’t be a thing.

Every state handles their constitution, legislation and redistricting differently. Politicians in Texas can just redraw districts if they want. In CA, the citizens control the keys to voting districts.

Also, if other states did want to vote on something, they would need to scramble for an expensive special election now. They just missed the annual window to vote.

Oh man if we had mandatory elections like you guys it would go a long way. What's the penalty there for not voting?

Americans, I highly encourage you to do everything you can to seize the means of federal elections

Seizing other things, like the means of production would also be pretty nifty.

Too confusing.... pedo could basically mean any guy working for this administration. Just like cheap-plastic-doll-who-refuses-to-age could refer to any female around them.

hell, I didn't even know who it was. Took a bit of footwork to find out :)

IDK but it gives them visibility and that already too much for me.

let me rephrase. She doesn't want the humiliation of getting her ass primaried as people decide to fuck it all to hell; causing her to lose.

This way she can go out on her own terms and pretend like she's not part of the problem while living off the shitloads of money she scammed from us.

tbf, getting shot in the face IS one of the better interactions you can have with Dick Cheney.

I mean, which one would you pick?

• waterboarded at home
• sent to allied torture prison abroad
• accidentally groped during family Christmas photo
• he jumps awkwardly onto your presidential campaign train last minute and you lose it
• shot in the face