The skeptic in me says Trump and his personal army will use the data from these primaries to focus their attention in November.
Just like how in 2020 he used the data to show that Democrats used mail-in voting much more than Republicans. So he promptly put in a postmaster general who started dismantling mail sorting machines to slow down the mail.
Skeptic in you can be skeptical, but the simple fact is that it doesn’t matter what happens, they will claim voter fraud no matter what. I no longer care about anything anyone does that “will cause them to respond X” because they will anyway. heh
Claiming voter fraud after the vote is much different than preventing voters from getting to the voting booth or casting their vote. That’s what I’m concerned about.
I do think that it will be tough to tackle all of the demos that are writing trump off. Not saying he’s not going to try and succeed in some places, but it appears based on primaries that he’s got to disenfranchise about everywhere, and that’s a lot more difficult.
Not everywhere. He’ll have the data to show which voting places have the largest surge of democrats. He’ll seen his army to those places.
The administration has literally talked about that and much worse lmao, absolutely nobody graspes just how fucked we are. We need to all stop going to work yesterday, a majority of the country going full strike is the only non-violent way to even slightly curve us back towards normal (can’t fucking believe I want the US I grew up with back but of course this shithole just keeps shitting the bed).
I’m ready. There needs to be a way to centrally organize all this. It needs to happen in such high numbers that employers will be absolutely fucked if they attempt to fire workers who go on general strike. It needs to happen in such magnitude that it tanks the stock market and puts everyone at a disadvantage. I’m willing to temporarily damage my 401k (I hate our for-profit retirement system btw).
3% is all it would take, especially if it was healthcare and service workers. Imagine Trump or his supporters having a medical emergency and they can’t get care. 10% would be marvelous.
A good approach might be to target sectors. Easier to manage, being smaller, and it could still have a heavy impact if you’re strategic about it.
Also, needs to be decentralized in my opinion. Take a look at why the US is having such a hard time with Iran — their military leadership is decentralized. The pros are that you can’t decapitate the leadership, but the cons are that you can’t unilaterally make a decision to change course very fast.
We need that. Kick off a decentralized general strike, so that everyone and their moms feel vindicated and empowered in striking. No grand “start here” and “end there” dates. Maybe it’s just “see how much time you can take off in November,” followed by “try to take more off in December.” The government would be fighting a cultural battle here, not a legal one. It’s pretty good at legal battles, but not the other.
This obviously creates several issues. People need money for food, housing, medical, … as such, there should be solutions for these concerns readily available. Food banks, hospitals that won’t turn you down, … how are you going to make a society feel like risking their immediate home is something they can do? It took a pandemic to make people not work nor pay rent last time, but that was much less of a choice than this would be.
I was actually taking some personal notes earlier. But if you’re going to post this, I guess I’ll take the hit with you.
Only one state would need to pull this off to inspire everyone else to do it. Ideally it starts with a productive state the national economy relies on. Even better, a battleground state with a broad coalition. And it could be gradual. Present the list of demands to the state government, do it for one day. If they refuse to capitulate, then two and so forth.
A movement would also need to develop a massive mutual aid support network. Things are going to get hard for everyone during the times of striking, so we’d need to ensure everyone at least has food and water.
Also, the person instigating this will probably end up in prison. But then once the ball is rolling, with everyone on board, they won’t be able to imprison millions at a time.
Nothing would satisfy me more to watch them cave to demands as they watch their wealth evaporate with each strike.
It only takes one match to start a wildfire.
Well, I guess the way to start would be to secure those networks of mutual aid. We can develop those and it would be useful regardless of how things turn out, while also ensuring we’re more ready for real action when the time comes.
We shouldn’t be naming networks of mutual aid as an unsolved problem, next time this conversation comes up. It’s too big a blocker. Plan now.
So, how can that get started?
Well, that’s the kicker. Community leaders need to be engaged from many disparate groups. That includes listening to the concerns of rural voters. One thing that people agree on is frustration regarding the economy. Cultural war issues need to be left aside for now.
Also, a message of power to the people. A lot of disaffection results from people not having a real say in the decisions that affect their lives.
But back to the topic of mutual aid… talking to people and figuring out how to utilize the networks we already have in place in a coordinated effort, and how we can build more. The organizing can take place somewhat online, but it also needs to be done face to face.
Democrats’ task gets harder heading into general elections this fall. Tennessee’s 9th District, which had been the state’s only blue seat, is now rated Solid Republican by the Cook Political Report and went for Trump by 21 points in 2024.
“Everyone that came out last night — that needs to double for November,” Knight said.
That district was dispersed into 3 other districts. I hope this story inspires black voters throughout the south, but for the the people in Memphis, they lost. The 9th district was Tennessee’s only blue district. I don’t think it is coming back any time soon.
So basically… disenfranchising minorities increases the vote? DISENFRANCHISE ALL THE MINORITIES!!! /s /s /s
:)
Also: https://archive.ph/3n2la - getting around the paywell
Magats can’t spell “disenfranchising minorities” no /s needed lol
We should find out if they can spell defenestration though heh
That’s a ddos website
I can’t read the article because it’s pay walled.
