Here is my last toot about my thoughts on the Dems and Fr I should pin this:
They are the lesser of 2 evils. You should vote for them until Ranked choice voting comes along or the fascist threat ceases to exist.
I am definitely not talking about the voters, I mean the politicians. Always. The voters aren't the party.
They were partially responsible for getting us into this mess with fascism. The degree to which they did and how they did so is debatable. Contact me or read more of my posts for details.
They are not a good option in terms of policy. They are often Reaganomics lite when it comes to the economy.
The Democratic Party consists of a center left wing and a centrist/center right wing. Think Bernie/Warren vs Manchin/Biden.
The progressive wing should actually be a separate party. They are entirely different from the rest of the party and anywhere else in the world this would be the case already.
If you disagree and this offends your political sensibilities, feel free to unfollow me.
@jacobrogers256 the party members are the party, technically, so some of the non-politician voters are technically also the party, to be autistic about it š
Iām pro-human rights (via UNUDHR), pro-science, pro-sustainability (in all of its forms, not just environmentally speaking), and pro-pragmatism, pro-reform (politically speaking), and some other things too.
Did you ever get ahold of Angel Mounds to talk to them?
Cool, you had told me not to call them, so I was wondering, but local matters ought to come first, most of the time.
And Iāve answered: not much yet, in terms of what you would consider activism, except through hiring lawyers in defense of employee rights. I canāt speak to it directly, but there were some positive outcomes.
My latest personal goal is to organize a local chapter of Amnesty International
I prefer that activists embrace science rather than reject it
@msquebanh And I vehemently disagree and assert that you can protect human rights from a comfort zone
A comfort zone is the end result of Human Rights and I consider it ludicrous to hold the opinion that defending human rights necessitates violence. It utterly does not necessitate anything beyond becoming educated about Human Rights and educating others about Human Rights
As Asimov liked to paraphrase, āviolence is the last resort of the incompetentā, against the evil of tyranny
I suppose, furthermore, I would ask you in counter-inquiry: how big of a voting bloc can you muster?
Because if you muster a big enough voting bloc, you can enable the Optional Protocols in Human Rights that allow individual citzens to make appeals for assistance, OUTSIDE of your country, when your country is violating your Human Rights
Then, if violence is necessary, rely on trained combatants and not innocent citizens, if the tyranny were to reach such a magnitude
Fair enough, you said that you would call them after I said that I would call them, so I took that as implying that you didnāt want me to call.
Indeed, by definition, one must seek in-nation refugee assistance before one can seek YN assistance and furthermore, a nation must have enabled the optional protocols in order for an external body like the UN to have any actual authority.
Hence, one needs to muster a large enough voting bloc to enable the optional protocols.
Iām not sure that youāve fully internalized the UNUDHR, because one could paraphrase the whole document as simply stating that ābasic comfort is an inalienable, universal right of all humansā
The entirety of the document, from the legal theory in the Preamble to the 30 Articles of rights, is in support of the concept that all humans should be free from fear and free from want
Iād appreciate it if you stopped delegitimizing the UN with your words. Build a voting bloc
I do not have the means to make a 6 hour round trip to get to the capitol of my state for every AI meeting.
Besides, doing so would defeat the purpose and intent for having local chapters. Indiana is a large state and the concerns of Central Indiana are quite different from those of Southern Indiana.
Itās becoming clear that BC is analogous to the Red States in America where the locals tend to support police authoritarianism over human rights.
If non-violence is your style, then the only thing to be done is to win the hearts and minds of the locals and build a large enough voting bloc to make a legislative difference.
āComfortā is a universal human right, vis a vis the right to a standard of living, shelter, food, healthcare, etc, and NOT a privilege.
āThe Blessed One said: "Now what, monks, is noble right concentration with its supports and requisite conditions? Any singleness of mind equipped with these seven factors ā right view, right resolve, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, and right mindfulness ā is called noble right concentration with its supports and requisite conditions.ā
ā Maha-cattarisaka Sutta
I take the Buddhist perspective that Right Speech just as noble as Right Action.
Crucial observation from Rachel Cohen over at the new place - and it points to a larger problem: In the mainstream political discourse, especially in mainstream media coverage, terms like āmoderateā and āextremeā have absolutely no substantive definition, which makes it easy for conservatives to constantly drag their meaning rightward.
Personally, Iād much rather see election reforms like ranked-choice voting, abolishing the electoral system, a publicly shared pool of campaign finance, and legislatively breaking up the duopoly of parties.
I compltagree about non-voters and believe that we should work on that problem with the above techniques, but also by adding options for abstention and no-confidence or, even better, by embracing a more referendum based voting procedure.
"Anarchism's great project is to dissolve the asymmetry of power. How? There are thousands of alternatives and there is not only one solution. To advance 'one' solution would be a doctrine of power, a manifestation of power."
@strypey Human Rights is the one doctrine, a prime directive, if you will, that by definition does not pit one party against another in a power struggle. Equal rights for all!