Post AVnLhUUID9gDX7DL28 by TYB@mstdn.social
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(DIR) Post #AVkMK0KvfA7HqCJrJg by TonyStark@progressivecafe.social
2023-05-17T12:02:50Z
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Congratulations to the voters and volunteers and to Heather Boyd. This is an important win to keep the PA House in Democratic hands.This win will allow the PA House to advance LGTBQ+ rights, workers’ rights, voting rights, abortion rights, common sense gun safety laws, and many more progressive priorities. These wins only happen because of help from people like you.Democrat Heather Boyd wins Delaware County special election in 163rd District:https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/pennsylvania-house-163rd-district-election-results-20230516.html
(DIR) Post #AVkViFJKXXEQouCo7c by MariaHill@progressivecafe.social
2023-05-17T13:28:58Z
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@TonyStark Congratulations to Boyd and everyone who worked to make this happen.If you wrote 5, 20, or 50 postcards or made phone calls to help with this effort (I did!), know that you made a difference for democracy. You not only helped the people of this district and Pennsylvania, but many Americans. Decisions made by the PA House will keep guns out of other states and will allow people from all over the country where care is restricted to access reproductive health care in PA.
(DIR) Post #AVkViFjuwgV09Me2Yy by TonyStark@progressivecafe.social
2023-05-17T14:10:03Z
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@MariaHill It’s important to note that not only do these races matter and that all races matter, but that each individual can have a positive impact.We can write postcards, letters, volunteer for text banks and phone banks, donate, put up signs, help deliver signs, help voters get to the polls, and help spread this information on social media and to people we meet every day. And that things that will help us all do happen. They happen all the time and will happen more the more we all engage.
(DIR) Post #AVkViY2etkBYuhYGH2 by Sharonbw@mastodon.online
2023-05-17T14:44:45Z
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@TonyStark @MariaHill Each of us can do something, and every little bit counts. When we all participate and pull together we accomplish a lot.
(DIR) Post #AVmlv3oSaTAUVVooDI by seldear@aus.social
2023-05-18T00:28:40Z
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@TonyStark @MariaHill Just gonna point out that one of the things I saw among progressive US friends (mostly white middleclass fans from various fandoms) during the 2016 election was the repressing of the progressive voter because HRC wasn't progressive enough for them; because they wanted Bernie and they didn't get him.Telling people that HRC was a shit candidate meant some who might have voted didn't. It meant people who might have gotten out for democracy (even if it wasn't perfectly their candidate) decided to stay home on election day.I thought about those friends in the years that followed - many of them Jewish, bi, trans... Do they regret it? I don't know. I took a 6 month hiatus from the SMs we shared and didn't reconnect when I returned.But I still wonder: how many people did they influence across SM not to vote in their vocal insistence that the Dem platform wasn't good enough? How many more were out there in 2015-2016, repressing the vote because it "wasn't good enough"?Participation absolutely matters, but the concept of "participation" also includes how we speak about democracy and being involved in it. All those accounts telling people "it's both parties" and "your vote doesn't count"? They disincentivise participation in the democratic process. (Burn like trash, assholes.)Not trash-talking democracy or the 'lesser evil' *also* matters!
(DIR) Post #AVmlv4aJiXRutwD1o8 by MollyNYC@mstdn.social
2023-05-18T16:23:24Z
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@seldear @TonyStark @MariaHill I don’t disagree—misogyny fairly dripped off “progressive” Bernie bros.However, another Democratic own-goal in 2016 was voter turnout.Historically, we’ve sucked at it.But yesterday?We didn’t just win in JAX and CO Springs.We won them in AN OFF-YEAR ELECTION IN MAY.A *huge* change in Democratic voting habits.#USPolitics
(DIR) Post #AVnLhUUID9gDX7DL28 by TYB@mstdn.social
2023-05-18T14:35:51Z
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@TonyStark @MariaHill More importantlyVOTEVote for every seat in every election with information and integrity, then ask everyone to do the same
(DIR) Post #AVzEuHITvpnHX7gd2e by TonyStark@progressivecafe.social
2023-05-18T00:42:39Z
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@seldear @MariaHill This is a good discussion to have and I don’t want to ignore it! I am a progressive person as you know, Sel. So is Maria. We were both supporters of Hillary Clinton. We do know there were disruptive, intentional social media campaigns to try and influence the election for Trump. How much effect it had is hard to quantify.I’ll come back to this but I had a response earlier today that implied progressives should work with Democrats. Progressives ARE Democrats.
(DIR) Post #AVzEuIHoFoqmbKNbdI by TonyStark@progressivecafe.social
2023-05-18T00:45:04Z
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@seldear @MariaHill And yes, downballot races are effected by federal election turnout. Worse for Dems again if people stayed home. We are all paying for that and unfortunately will for, I can’t say how long.It’s not necessary to have perfection for progress. It is necessary to prevent what we ended up with for it. The “burning it all down” doesn’t leave much to build with.
(DIR) Post #AVzEuJ0TZkZyprHHFo by GreenFire@mstdn.social
2023-05-18T15:56:42Z
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@TonyStark @seldear @MariaHill Democrats are the progressive political party in the USA, no ifs, ands or buts about it if being progressive means making progress.
(DIR) Post #AVzEuJclHPCikbBqvg by wndlb@mas.to
2023-05-18T16:03:51Z
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@GreenFire @TonyStark @seldear @MariaHill There are those, with whatever label, who refuse to support the Bidens and Gores, and instead go with Ralph Nader and Jill Stein. #Unhelpful
(DIR) Post #AVzEuKIEnCNgpEayZs by GreenFire@mstdn.social
2023-05-18T16:06:04Z
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@wndlb @TonyStark @seldear @MariaHill I really think that we (social and traditional media) should try to stop talking using the terms Republican and Democrat to describe America's right and left. This might alleviate some of the reluctance on the left to cast a vote for the Democratic candidates.
(DIR) Post #AVzEuKvESDZamAq7MG by MariaHill@progressivecafe.social
2023-05-18T16:10:29Z
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@GreenFire @wndlb @TonyStark @seldear That's all well and good except when people have to register with a party in order to vote in a primary in closed primary states, and have to pick Democrat or Republican. Or in the general election and parties are listed on the ballots. The Framers didn't want political parties, and as soon as they wrote themselves a constitution and created our current system, we had them.
(DIR) Post #AVzEuLg1eF0H7IjUIK by GreenFire@mstdn.social
2023-05-18T16:14:34Z
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@MariaHill @wndlb @TonyStark @seldear The framers didn't want political parties and didn't address them in our constitution, but that was naivete on their part.Our biggest mistake has been to allow the two parties to become too powerful over our political landscape. I believe that at this stage the best way to create an opening for more parties (which I think would solve a lot of our problems) is to increase Americans' access to Ranked Choice Voting.
(DIR) Post #AVzEuMCHiIo8jLpFZo by MariaHill@progressivecafe.social
2023-05-18T16:16:58Z
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@GreenFire @wndlb @TonyStark @seldear I didn't mean that they wrote parties into the constitution. I meant that as soon as ink was dry on the Constitution and we had the Congress created in Article I, we also ended up with two parties.I agree with you on the rest.