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Good News. Kentucky re-elected Democratic governor. Virginia flipped house of delegates to Democrats, gaining complete control of state legislature.

Kentucky shows is that even in red states, Democrats have the numbers. This shows how critical showing up and voting is.

GOP/Republicans bad for climate change. They deny it, say it isn't humans, etc. Democrats at least acknowledge we need to do something.

For those outside the US, we have first past the post voting, which inevitably leads to two political parties.

State governments hold a lot of power. They are almost completely over sovereign with certain restrictions and reservations of power by our federal government.

GOP (aka Republicans) = Right to far right. I.e. libertarian, fascist, conservative, Christian nationalist.

Democrat = center right to far left. I.e. conservative, progressive, socialist, neoliberal

Democrats have greater numbers by a good margin, but have lower voter turnout and are disenfranchised electorial due to gerrymandering.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

he talked about that after the election though. All in all though Biden has been awesome for me. No surprise billing, a jobs bill that focuses on enviromental conserns, capping student loans to the original principal and forgiving after 20 years (which is only because he got blocked on loan forgiveness in general but he still came out with a pretty good system), getting taxes done online. Ill take it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I speak as someone disillusioned with the Dem party post 2016. Biden’s administration has done good things in the face of baseless obstructionism, but IMO he should be the conservative against more progressive candidates. He really is American conservatism with liberalism sprinkles.

My indignation at this article and media outlets are the tying of these local and state races to Biden the individual and the presidential branch. As you pointed out, the real change comes from the legislative branch and local offices. I have a feeling many of those local races where Dems nominally won have no love for Biden but, like us all, will have to support him because he’s not biohazardous trash like all Rs at this point.

He doesn’t inspire me to go vote. I’ll do it out of obligation to myself and other citizens, but he makes it a chore.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

oh yeah but that has always been the case with democrats. they are more centerist or at best left of center than progressive. The only reason they have genuinely progressive and liberal folk in the party is because of our two party system. It used to be sorta the same but oppositely with republicans although they were farther from the center. I can't even say they have become more conservative unless you only use their way of doing things for the last few decades. To me its just crazy almost random stuff. Its us vs them where us seems to change on some sort of fad basis or is defined by anti them or something.