You were never in the history of our country guaranteed your own personal customized government-

Not Madison, Not Lincoln or FDR- made that promise - every part of this experience came with compromise

Voting anyway is your RESPONSIBILITY as a citizen.
Berners love the meme of FDR winning 4 election as a complete socialist*

During FDRs time few eligible voters actually did so. Voter participation levels are more about access and less abt leanings

Everyone isn’t excited by the same things that would never be a guaranteed win Image
europarl.europa.eu/election-resul…

Myth: If the Dems fail to win its because they didn’t offer enough to nonvoters to turn them out.

Fact: Turnout is governed by access to voting, like time to vote and not on ideology

Fact: Places w/ high turnout elected both conservatives and liberals
Fact: Politicians that adopt the strategy of promising everything - don’t win anymore races than other people.

Foremost many voters don’t view such politicians as credible

Government has limits - speaking like it doesn’t appears shady.

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Apr 23
Karen Attiah is completely wrong in her interpretation of the Civil Rights movement

I didn’t quote tweet to say that- I quoted tweeted to say its odd I have to say it.

The CVM activists explicitly explained the how and the why.
These people wrote books

There are documentaries capturing their living testimony on the who, the what, the how and the why

Some are still alive

Others wrote extensively in their own words a play by play
For ex.

I attended a lecture in the 1990s where Bobby Seale former co- founder of the Black Panthers was the main speaker.

20 minutes of his 60 was spent on blasting the Mario Van Peebles flick Panther

Because it depicted the Panthers as non strategic
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Apr 14
Said- but not said.

I think so many of you - think so little of black people - that you don't want to give them the strategic credit of orchestrating the civil rights movement.
It fits within your world view - that it was this tribal spontaneous movement of anger that rose to the top and shocked the conscience of benevolent white people

So that is what you seek to emulate. And despite that never yielding a positive outcome, you are going to continue
The first step in learning organizing tools, and truly apply learned lessons in tactical resistance is to first accept that black people are:

Intelligent
Disciplined
High thinking
Self-sacrificing

You would rather get screw up your life - than counter your ingrained biases.
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Apr 14
Each watermelon activist sees themselves as Rosa Parks while engaging in these actions, which are the least Rosa Parks-esque things one could do. 🧵
People do things in the civil rights fight to gain a specific outcome.

See citation
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Apr 6
If the Rock choose not to endorse this time, I don’t think anybody would’ve noticed

But to say you sitting on the fence after J6 after other Republicans have decided that was a divisional line and reset to neutral takes a special kind decision making ie “like a steer”
You are basically saying

I heard of Project 25 as a black man and that has nothing todo with w/ me

I am okay as long as people like me enough to buy tickets
I cannot unsee that

He is big enough to be a producer - but I can’t believe him taking on the bag guy

He embodies a different character in those movies

The kill everyone else but save me dude
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Apr 6
This type of help =no help

I’m going to tell you why.

Countless daily decisions shape climate policy, yet rebellious climate activists are missing from each one.
State assembly meetings on how much investment into renewable energy, the timetable and how equitable implementation

Are these guys there- no

We often lose these fights daily

With utility pushing to slow down the timetable

And “affordability” advocates helping fhem
HOA management companies enforce restrictions on putting up solar panels

Are these ppl their to give cogent arguments on the need for alternative fuels

cnet.com/home/energy-an…
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Feb 2
Everyday - with the same wording someone now jumps into my account to talk about replacing President Biden as the Democratic nominee.

Some don't try to hide they don't live in the U.S. and everyone is currently from Michigan or Pennsylvania.

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Being able to run for president - means being able to run in

56 states- Yes that number is correct #.
Having large staffing, and infrastructure at your disposal
And a good enough name ID

That narrows things considerably
That narrows things to
Madam Vice president
a handful governors,
A handful of Senators
Former luminaries
Maybe some business ppl- but not so much.

And as many Americans who say they wan someone else few have any consensus on that person
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