Damn, I forgot the constitution was racist
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Exactly! The American Israel Public Affairs Committee donated 51.8 million dollars to the Democrats in 2024. How much of that was spent on advisors that they vetted?
They didn't even have to tell her to support Israel's "right to defend itself", though they certainly did. Far more insidious, they could have told her all sorts of bad advice calculated to make her lose. Like that the "weird" thing was alienating voters and should be toned down. Then she loses while thinking she's getting good advice, and they get Trump to declare war on Iran instead!
Unfortunately, America uses First Past The Post, which invariably consolidates the options into two parties due to the spoiler effect. I don't feel like explaining how the spoiler effect works right now, so instead I'll recommend CGP Grey's early videos on First Past The Post.
I heartily recommend campaigning for election reform. In addition to switching to ranked choice or approval voting (both are better than FPTP), abolishing the Electoral College would go a long way to actually implementing the American promise of democracy.
In the meantime, as Zohran Mamdani just proved, we have options. Most Democrat party members ARE idealists. Money speaks loudly, and that's the strategy the DNC uses to control the party. But truth and passion can speak louder, if hope and cynicism are applied in a healthy balance. Help AOC and Bernie with their plan; they know what they're doing, but this is a team effort. It doesn't work without a team.
And I've come up with an unconventional plan, Myself. It has a very, very low chance of success. But I believe it's the best ending. Here it is:
If we foil the Democrats' plan to lose, if we fuck with that plan hard enough, then it may one day be possible to raise the Democratic vote consistently over double the Republican vote. Once that happens, the spoiler effect ceases relevance. The Democrats can safely have a schism without the Republicans winning. At that point, the progressives in the party would split into a new party, potentially bigger in size than the entire Republican party. There would be two new parties in American politics: the DNC old guard, and a genuinely leftist party. Like I said, it's an unlikely dream, but it's the best hope short of a communist revolution.
Which we should definitely also work towards, the other 364 days of the year.
I have no idea what the solution should be. I definitely wouldn't want My legal name to be known by some people I dated. But people should also be able to make an appeal to the law when they're abused. But I don't want the government to be tracking trans people's names.
It's a mess. If I were Queen of Earth, I'd just make transphobia illegal and then trans people wouldn't have to hide our names. But that's not a workable policy suggestion. So I think all we can do is get more educated on how to correctly identify and deal with in-community abuse.
Moving away from paper ballots is one of the steps in their plan to subvert democracy and lose elections