Stacey Abrams working on voter suppression. Obama working on gerrymandering.
Once again black people doing the wo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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M’BlockU (@rodimusprime) August 29, 2019Posts Tagged ‘democracy
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Apr
18
Wise Words
Obama calls out Facebook and Google, and says it's hard to know how long democracy can survive the current politica… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
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Business Insider (@businessinsider) February 27, 201812
Mar
18
Tell ‘Em, FLOTUS
Michelle Obama: Change comes from people, not politicians ti.me/2FDBM9f
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(@TIME) February 28, 201801
Feb
18
‘I Want Freedom’
In honor of Black History Month and Langston Hughes birthday ✊🏾
(This is the poem I read over the announcements)… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
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emanee 🤸🏾♀️ (@EmaneeWright) February 01, 201807
Dec
17
Chat Away
Obama issues a warning against growing nativist sentiments.
“We have to tend to this garden of democracy or else t… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
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Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) December 07, 2017A different President, four months ago: https://t.co/4uOTmjEVUW
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Cody Keenan (@codykeenan) May 10, 2017“You get the politicians you deserve.” Watch President Obama talk about voter responsibilities. https://t.co/8FZCAbMwGK
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AJ+ (@ajplus) May 11, 201702
Sep
15
Entertained to Death
I will not hide it: I’m something of a pop culture maven. Not, perhaps, through active participation. But being at all aware in this culture it does tend to seep into you, if only through osmosis. And as a librarian, I make a concerted effort to keep abreast of things high and low, so that I can converse with and serve my patrons.
I’m certainly not one of those scolds who thinks pop culture has no place in the world. Most of us have grown up enmeshed in it, and have, for the most part, come out no worse for wear. I enjoy my sports, and I enjoy my movie spectacles.
However, we have entered a period of convergence, where the juggernaut which is popular culture collides with and circles around a concerted 50 year effort to make the electorate uninformed, apathetic, and downright hostile to its prime duty, which is to pay attention, educate itself, and govern itself.
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Nov
14
A Different Take On The Election
A different take on the election
by @zizii2
Much handwringing over the Democratic party’s electoral fortunes has taken place this past week. Teabaggers are ecstatic. The most loathesome wingnuts are going to make our lives even more miserable than we have already endured. Some young people justify young voter apathy by saying Democrats did not give them what they wanted, as shown below in the Carl Gibson piece titled:
Open Letter to Democrats From a Disillusioned Young Voter
And Democratic Party leaders will probably learn the wrong lessons and move further repub-lite.
I think differently about what happened. I believe what we are seeing is the brick wall that Coalition Politics slams into when the regular institutions of Democracy have been irreparably subverted and perverted by oligarchs and their political minions who have convinced many Americans that nihilism is their birthright. What do I mean?
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Normally, in a democracy, aspiring politicians and party platforms woo voters with promises of what they will DO for said voters, and the campaigns go full steam ahead in competition. And whoever wins tries to maintain voter approval and possible reelection based on their ability to account to the voter. Otherwise how do you win power again, right?
Wrong. Voters? What voters? GOP-Oligarchs’ answer to electoral imperatives and demographic change, is to shrink the electorate till they could “drown it in a bathtub”!
