Well, that and the GOP finessing the congressional district redrawing. But yeah, the '18 midterms are going to be crucial to the next couple of decades. If the GOP holds on and has impunity to implement more voter suppression laws, continue to redraw districts, and support the xenophobic, anti-minority ideologies of Trump and Bannon, the GOP will give themselves ultimate control of the House, and make it that much easier to hold onto the Senate and WH.
Jesus the ****show never ends@BrianKlaas: The Secretary of Homeland Security found out that the Muslim ban executive order was being signed by watching TV. https://t.co/msEsiIRFPH
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/01/...top-news&_r=0&referer=https://t.co/1HlMKa0NZq
Occupy was a mixture of people though. Majority of the people that were part of the movement actually had no political affiliation.
You live in philly?
Agreed! But I think both the BLM and DAPL movements need visible leaders. IMO, BLM became less effective because there was no leadership to push back against the " all lives matter " and " blue lives matter " deflection. There needs to be some sort of centralized leadership to set an adgenda going forward in the future.
You on point today(except for in the footy thread).It's been hard given all the usual corruption in many countries but ever since the AU formed in 2001,I'd say things have slowly gotten much better in terms of development and even political stability imo. Just a week or 2 ago,West African states exercised the will of the people and forced out the dictator in Gambia after he lost the elections and wouldn't let go of power. Feels like there's been more successful transitions of power throughout the continent recently and I'm hoping that the stability that comes from that will help countries and their economies grow and even take advantage of globalization instead of being taken advantage of by great powers like usual.
It really would be great to some of the talent that could be leaving the States over the next few years going back home to help their countries out. Africa is way too loaded with an abundance of natural resources for none of the rewards to ever go back to Africans
I'm from Jersey but I work in Philly. Alot of budget cuts have seen alot of people lose their jobs here.
It definitely wasn't. Look at the protests after the inauguration. Not just here but AROUND THE WORLD and the protests going on currently about the Muslim ban. Not comparable imo
So why are you? Again so far in scale and scope the current protests going on are much bigger than OWS ever was. Even then there was much ambiguity about OWS that made it unsuccessful as in it's implementation and what it set out to accomplish. I can't speak anymore on the current protests because like you said it has only been going on for a little over a week.
