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DemocracyMouse's JournalUS Border Patrol is out of control
Daily Kos covers the point plank killing of a young woman by US Border Patrol. This is not the first time and it has to stop. Police abuse and executions of minorities has to stop. Now. It is the cruelest, sickest, grossest thing I've ever imagined possible. A young person struggling to escape poverty, only to be shot and killed by a North American for HIDING from his gun!
As Avenatti says, "Basta!" (enough!)
START GETTING YOUR NEIGHBORS READY TO VOTE IN A LANDSLIDE THIS NOVEMBER!!!
TALK TO EVERYONE! Every retailer, every neighbor!
https://m.dailykos.com/stories/1767023
And I'd like to add this link to a story in the Washington Press about our sick, sick, sick President separating children from their parents (and losing track of 1,500 of the kids, some to human traffickers):
https://washingtonpress.com/2018/05/24/trump-has-just-begun-forcing-detained-immigrants-to-wear-yellow-insignias/
Unscientific bias towards "moderates" by political establishment may lead to fewer votes
A sober, peer-reviewed article in The Legislative Studies Quarterly suggests that political establishments may be hampering the GOTV effort. There's a bias towards "moderate" candidates which is intuitive and not very strategic.
Principled Moderation: Understanding Parties Support of Moderate Candidates
By Hans J.G. Hassell
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/lsq.12197
If we want progress AND we want to win, stand up to insider's unscientific biases. Progressives and moderates can both win and we need to check our biases especially with a perfect storm of Republican/Russian evil to pivot on.
Washington Post: The Democrats' most salient, combustive and unifying idea
At this stage it's not about Warren, Booker, De Blasio or Sanders. It's about understanding the underlying forces at work in this country... about empathy for the millions of people such forces are affecting.
It's about putting forth a vision that can shed light on all the other issues. May the Democrats work together to forge this unifying vision.
Washington Post:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/hey-democrats-whats-the-big-idea/2018/05/15/daab0926-5880-11e8-858f-12becb4d6067_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.3c083d079c81
And that is inequality. The oligarchy in this country, whose greed is insatiable, is destroying Lincolns view of America, our vision of America, and is leading us to a government of the few, by the few and for the few.
This is a big idea. Maybe the big idea. Whoever can best make that case should lead the Democrats in 2020.
"I feel like I've been tricked by the devil"
So some Republicans can think... when up against naked, self-serving, reality:
Raw Story:
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/05/feel-stupid-trump-supporters-tricked-devil-now-facing-financial-ruin/
I feel like Ive been tricked by the devil, Devine admitted. I feel so stupid.
Just drove a large hand-made sign into the heartland
(And I came out alive).
I taped four manila folders together and wrote a big bold sign that stretched all the way across the bumper of my 2012 Honda Civic. Then I drove from NJ to Illinois and back to visit my son. This is what I wrote in all caps:
WHILE CITIZENS CLASH
THE 1% TAKES THE CASH
VOTE DEMS NOV. 6
And then for good measure, to really confuse the occasional evangelical, I squeezed into the corner:
"Love thy neighbor." Jesus
As I drove for two days west and two days east, I entertained myself by passing cars and trucks with a slowdown just as my sign became visible. I calculated that if 2-3 people per minute saw that sign, I reached 34,000 folks over the entire journey. Multiply that by the conversations I started and the cell phone pix uploaded on Instagram and Facebook. (I slowed down especially to aid the meme-making process).
There were no threatening gestures. My car was totally unscathed.
We're gonna win.
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