I’m really not going to enjoy watching liberals engage in this cycle of electoral failure over and over until the earth becomes uninhabitable.
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I’m so disappointed that Prop 22 is looking like it will pass, but I’m happy to hear about good policy elsewhere in the country getting through. Drug decriminalisation is such an important issue, any progress there is enough to lighten my mood a little. These policies can tamp down on police brutality when nobody in office is willing to do anything substantive on their hand.
Admittedly, this year has made me far more cynical about the down ballot candidates - so many Democratic mayors, senators, congresspeople who let unchecked violence occur in their states and cities against BLM protesters. So I’m going to wait and see on some of these ‘victories’ across the country, but I’ll hope for the best from them.
Change won’t come from voting, but it’d be great to have people near enough to our side in power who might at least try to stop the police, National Guard, ICE, etc. abducting or extrajudicial murdering the people doing the real work we need to get that change.
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Shout out to Jo Jorgensen for literally costing Trump Michigan
I don’t recommend you see for yourself, but the pol seething is choice
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I enjoyed that thread of whining chuds on /pol/ as well.
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Between Jo Swindon and Jo Jorgensen, Jos need to be feared in politics. They cannot win, but they can play spoilers.
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Feeling good everyone 
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Finally getting a proper light rail system in Austin is a big deal. The city’s been putting it off for way too long.
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You know a city’s powerbrokers don’t want a train when they spend years putting off implementing a ‘not-train’.
Well we’re getting legal recreational weed here, so the next four years will be somewhat more bearable regardless.
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Considering how ultimately popular left/leftish lib ideas are when push comes to shove, even in Red-ass Florida where $15 minimum wage and letting felons vote won handedly, I think the mistake isn’t the ideas, it is the people.
So really, in 2024, the Democrats should run a formless person with no face and no voice. Put a mask over its face and all it can do is pull out placards that say “Medicare 4 All” and “No More Wars”.
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Jeez, my state of Georgia has a difference of like 30,000 votes.
Thankfully, Fulton is still counting, and that county is blue as HECK
Let’s hope this is the boost we need.
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I hate to be the Florida Defender here, but also I don’t care because seeing folks the world over take the piss out of where I live based on an election I wasn’t even old enough to vote in has seeded in me a seething rage that knows almost no end.
So.
The thing about Florida is that the name of the game really is population distribution and, honestly? Appealing to Cuban-Americans, specifically. The Latine vote doesn’t exist as a bloc. It never has. It never will. The term is useful only in that it describes people from a certain region of the world. And while you can put forth leftist policies in FL, you cannot under any circumstances, just let Republicans steamroll over it all by labeling them ‘socialist’, or worse, ‘communist’. Conservative Cubans and Cuban-Americans lose their shit over the idea that the scourge of communism will make it to their perfect safe refuge. And don’t think this is a problem that will end generationally, because it won’t. I went to school there for years and I can tell you that they are absolutely teaching their kids the same knee-jerk hatred for anything remotely socialist.
And the thing about population distribution and the blue areas in Florida really is a sort of teaching moment, and the lesson to be taken from them is:
- You cannot trust urban populations to be more leftist or liberal than rural populations. That’s a massive oversimplification on the wide variety of factors that inform the political views of any given population.
- You can’t rely on a handful of high population blue holdouts to flip a state. As of this writing, Miami, Tallahassee, Jacksonville, Tampa, West Palm and Orlando are all blue in terms of where they’ve fallen on the general election. They are islands in a red sea. It’s happened nearly every time that I remember, and it never works.
It’s both fascinating and bizarre that on Twitter (I know, I know…), I often see people generalizing about how we need to reach out to rural communities and help educate them, but apparently somehow Florida is the exception to the rule because of the results of an election that will be old enough to drink next year.
Just to clarify, I’m aware that no one here is ceaselessly shitting on Florida, but these are the thoughts often on my mind every two years, when election seasons come around and I start hearing the analysis go off. I’m aware no one here is generalizing when it comes to the entire state, and I’m aware that I don’t really need to ‘defend’ The Entire State Of Florida. These are just the thoughts I’ve been having for the last, like, entirety of my life.
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It’s 8,000 now. :3
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I, not being an american and looking in on it from the outside, would say nearly 50% of your voting population are voting for someone thats openly fascist and clearly criminal.
Anyone saying Florida is the problem is clearly missing the point.
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He looks and sound utterly defeated.
It probably doesn’t help that everytime I hear about the Florida Democratic Party, it is how much they suck and are completely out of touch. I’m no expert, but it would probably help if the state party was not a complete mess and was actually capable of mobilizing people.
Florida has a combination of massive wealthy retiree enclaves like The Villages who have an outsized influence on state elections, and the worst (or at least second worst) safety nets in the country causing the working poor to frequently fall through the cracks (and there isn’t a faster way of losing voting power than becoming homeless and/or being thrown in prison over petty offenses).
On top of that, you have the Sunshine Law which creates a direct pipeline of police reports to local headlines about wacky things people do out of desperation, fueling the idea that there’s some sort of collective psychosis affecting that region (see the Florida Man episode of Citations Needed for more about this).
That’s not even getting into the obvious gerrymandering issues. Clout-chasing liberals making sweeping judgments on the people in red states seriously need to buzz off forever.
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As someone from New England, I would like to apologize to everyone actually from Florida for all the conservative old people that decide go down and retire there.
Holy shit, it’s under 2000 votes.
it’s gonna get there. just a matter of whether it gets there before the rest of Philly’s mail ballots flip PA. and both senate races are going to runoffs too
i cannot imagine all the work it’s taken organizers in GA to accomplish what they’ve done over the last couple of years. what an incredible job
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