@hrefna having kept our city council member (who is skilled in community organizing, and facing down landlords and bankers) in office, keeping a crooked ex-cop off the city council, and at least protecting marriage equality at the state level is giving me some degree of less stress.
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Fundamentally I'm of the view that leftist power discourse over the last 80 years or so has taken a serious wrong turn in looking _up_ rather than _locally_ for power. -
Does anyone have practical advice for how we survive this?@hrefna @Artemis201 @markwyner I get where you're coming from but the misogynoir, the transmisia, the hatred of anyone with a uterus is coming from and amplified by churches, and will destroy any sort of collective, community effort.
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I'm as old as the Civil Rights Act, and my life has been living through the violent reaction of white christian men and their camp followers to the end of Jim Crow, and the establishment of economic rights for women, abortion rights, immigrant rights, ...I'm as old as the Civil Rights Act, and my life has been living through the violent reaction of white christian men and their camp followers to the end of Jim Crow, and the establishment of economic rights for women, abortion rights, immigrant rights, and queer rights.
tl;dr - the past 60 years of US history has been white christian men destroying everything because they aren't the center of the world.
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It's #NationalBlackCatDay and Dr.It's #NationalBlackCatDay and Dr. Mae Space Cat will not let you forget it.