Title comes from the article version of this newsletter; the content is the same, but the newsletter version isn’t paywalled.
Title comes from the article version of this newsletter; the content is the same, but the newsletter version isn’t paywalled.
The partial imperfect one that a big chunk of Americans vote in between last week and November.
The United States of America is a bourgeois dictatorship, not a democracy. The only important election of our lives will be the first one after the Workers take control.
I plan on voting Claudia and Karina 2024 and I recommend that others do the same.
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There are sometimes local races with only one candidate, but most races have more than one. Doesn’t mean that they’re all decent choices. But people can and do vote as they choose.
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And the consequences of a lot people doing that is that we will end up with Trump ending democracy and leaving us with a fascist state and no more meaningful elections
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Had the mob turned into the Senate chamber instead of chasing a black cop during the Jan. 6 insurrection that Trump incited, we really would have ended up with no democracy.
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Key difference: that fear was an irrational conspiracy theory. Which way a murderous mob turned while attacking congress was happenstance