Biden wants to talk about broadband; the students want to talk about civilian deaths in the Gaza Strip.
Democrats tout a road-widening project along Interstate 26 in Columbia underwritten by Biden’s infrastructure program; the students are focused on “food deserts” that contribute to diabetes and obesity.
“In our neighborhoods, we have gas stations, fast-food restaurants and liquor stores. We don’t have access to the same food,” said Tierra Albert, a 19-year-old sophomore at Claflin. (“I don’t want to vote for either one,” she said of the presidential contest.)
Asked if they believe elected officials are addressing such issues, a chorus of voices filled a campus conference room: “No.
The kids are all right.
I do have to ask, what can presidents do about local buildings and locations of grocery stores and the like.
Are we thinking like mandates or laws about zoning?
These articles are just ragebait. Political illiterates will always say silly things. Better to go after people that actually vote.
In my city, the county and a private non-profit put up millions of dollars to ensure a grocery store could operate on the city’s south side which is a food desert. It went bankrupt in 2 years. There’s this thing called a free market. I feel bad for them but this is reality. Not voting for Biden because he isn’t throwing billions of dollars to subsidize grocery stores so the other guy can put people in power who think slavery had its benefits is not just the dumbest fucking thing they can, but its incredibly dangerous for them. Good luck to them. They don’t know what the stakes are in November.
This is the same sort of rhetoric that centrists are using against the Palestinian/Muslim/Arab community in the Midwest, who are pretty ripshit angry at how Gaza is being handled, and are being turned off to voting for Biden because of it. Yes, I know that Trump would be far worse than Biden for them and their families abroad. But at the same time, you can’t just tell someone “vote for this man who is letting Israel bomb your grandparents and cousins because the other guy will do worse”. Best case, they’ll tell you to fuck off.
Disregarding and belittling the very real and concrete concerns of a demographic in swing states that will be highly critical to keeping Trump out in November is courting disaster.
…wow look guys, another person who thinks black folks are ignorant of current events, using a paragraph to avoid directly saying it.
They don’t know what the stakes are in November.
Please please please start thinking of black people as informed and intelligent as you consider yourself to be, this shit is getting tired.
You’d think that if the Democrats cared about democracy, they’d do some of the stuff young voters are asking for. They’re willing to let Trump win over doing popular stuff that everyone wants.
Well, don’t you know that the black community is a monolith unlike the latino community, which is made up of many individuals
Found the neolib
I’m sorry for being economically literate
Imagine coming on lemmy and yapping about free market capitalism like it’s fine.
We fucking hate capitalism here.
Oh I’m sorry I upset the hive mind. You’re all free to move to North Korea btw
I’m sorry for being economically literate
You’re all free to move to North Korea btw
#doubt
I’m sure trump will do them a solid for sure /s
A day after Sen. Bernie Sanders’ resounding victory in the Nevada caucuses, Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., said his state’s electorate could be uncomfortable with voting for someone who calls himself a socialist.
“I do believe it will be an extra burden for us to have to carry. This is South Carolina, and South Carolinians are pretty leery about that title socialist,” he said on ABC’s “This Week,” the day after Sanders’ resounding victory in the Nevada caucuses.
hmm…
Rep. Jim Clyburn, the influential lawmaker who helped lead Joe Biden to an overwhelming victory in South Carolina, says the Democrat National Committee should “shut this primary down” to help the former vice president’s chances in November.
And now he’s trying to get more people in his state to show up and vote, when he tried to disenfranchise voters in other states the last time. Go figure.
How will South Carolina Democrats let the nation down this time? Clyburn and SC are largely responsible for Biden winning, swung primary momentum to him in 2020 (Bernie was winning easily until then). Shortly after, Dem leadership rushed to organize the “Biden support wagon” (drop outs, endorsements) for Super Tuesday, and… the rest (insert COVID) is history.
Biden has done fine, supported progressive policies, and most of “his failures” originate from congress and Republican obstruction. Take your pick SC: Biden or Trump. Then kindly STFU.
Inb4 neolibs flood this thread and say this is Russian propaganda
Looks like they downvoted you instead.
Hey there, dumbass
https://weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/russian-propaganda-outlets-promote
Bot
And as full of ideas as every other centrist.
Dumbass
What the fuck does RFK have to do with this?
Not voting should be a valid option in Americas elections.
If neither candidate gets a majority, including non-voters, they both lose and new candidates have to step up to the polls. Rinse and repeat until the citizens actually chose.
It’d fix the ‘pick the one that sucks least’ issue.
Realistically we need to get rid of this first past the post system that directly results in two major parties. If the US had more political parties to choose from and for politicians to align with, we’d have a bit better odds at choosing more representative people.
A sentiment I’ve seen echoed hundreds of times; but nobody ever speaks of a way to actually achieve that.
America already has more than two parties, but nothing but the two major ones get even close to being elected.
How do you move from what you already have to a more balanced multi party system?
This is why I suggested a change that could theoretically be made immediately, and would have a large effect. I’ve heard no other actual solutions put forward.
How would your solution be any different than voting for a third party? It would have the exact same problem of being too risky because it probably won’t get enough votes to do anything other than help the party you don’t want to win. Ranked choice is a simple change that could be implemented quickly with some decent support already.
You make larger districts that elect more than one representative each.
Or at least that was how it was done here in Denmark.
This is why I suggested a change that could theoretically be made immediately
Your theory is not even remotely sound
Nah. Voting should be mandatory with the option of, “none of the above” included. It should also be a public holiday.
That’s… Basically the same thing.
Point is still include those that didn’t vote for the major players. If votes for a party are not a majority of all possible voters, that party didn’t win.
Whether you force everyone to come in and tick ‘neither’ or just automatically count non-votes as neither is just semantics imo.
It’s not semantics, it’s doing the bare minimum to engage in democracy.
It’d fix the ‘pick the one that sucks least’ issue.
Ranked choice voting would do that, but the duopoly is terrified of it.
Who exactly is running the country while you have successive elections that don’t net a winner? After each election failure do we have another primary? Do you have any idea how expensive it is for municipalities to hold elections?
To be clear, the highest midterm voter turnout was 49% in 2018. So if literally everyone who voted had voted for the same candidate, the candidate who received 100% of the vote would lose; under your system, no one would ever win.
Even in 2020, only 66% of eligible voters turned out. It’s unlikely any presidential candidate could win given those turnout numbers.
Not trying to be rude, but this might be the stupidest idea I’ve ever heard. You’d literally bring government to a screeching halt because no one could get elected.
