Agree. But did you watch HCR’s video of 6/30? She estimates we have only two years to effect meaningful legislative change. With Congress as it is, and, worse, as it may become after the midterms, I can’t feel optimistic. I’m writing frequently to my senators and representative, but that’s sort of preaching to the choir since they’re…
Agree. But did you watch HCR’s video of 6/30? She estimates we have only two years to effect meaningful legislative change. With Congress as it is, and, worse, as it may become after the midterms, I can’t feel optimistic. I’m writing frequently to my senators and representative, but that’s sort of preaching to the choir since they’re all Democrats. I send money every month to Fair Fight and to candidates that I think/hope may have a chance in the midterms, but my contributions are nothing compared with what the GOP is able to rake in from its mega donors. In short, I feel hopeless, but still determined to do what I can. BTW, I lived in the segregated South, but when I moved to Chicago in 1979, I immediately discovered that it was even more segregated and racist than Chapel Hill, NC.
I think what you can afford should be spread around. It didn’t state who or where the donations went to. The FL guy, not TFG has bragged that his Campaign alone has taken in over a Million.Yrs ago I read back in the 1950’s there were about 200 Lobbyist. Today, 10k -15 K maybe more since my last search of them. We have lots of Millionaires now. 750 there abouts Billionaires and Trillionairs. How much Democracy can all of us afford ?
Friends from Chicago spoke of their surprise at the number of mixed couples we have here in France, saying you'd never see that in their city...
We in turn are surprised by many apparent obsessions in American society with ideas that have gotten lodged in people's heads; fixed ideas about things like features and skin color ("race") or "gender"... or "rugged individualism" -- commonly expressed as thoroughgoing conformism. Ideas that solidify into tumors. All accompanied by blind collective belief, typically in things that are radically incompatible.
Ha! Good ol' Apple Chill. ;) I attended graduate school there, many decades ago. I remember when Jesse Helms suggested building a fence around Chapel Hill.
It's not preaching to the choir, Joanna, it's giving your legislators the stats they need to prove this is an issue their constituents care about. You also provide fresh language for them to articulate the case for legislation. My personal goal is to eradicate 'at the end of the day' or 'the American people want' (that one is Mitch's). Fresh language, original perspectives on issues, wake people up.
Agree. But did you watch HCR’s video of 6/30? She estimates we have only two years to effect meaningful legislative change. With Congress as it is, and, worse, as it may become after the midterms, I can’t feel optimistic. I’m writing frequently to my senators and representative, but that’s sort of preaching to the choir since they’re all Democrats. I send money every month to Fair Fight and to candidates that I think/hope may have a chance in the midterms, but my contributions are nothing compared with what the GOP is able to rake in from its mega donors. In short, I feel hopeless, but still determined to do what I can. BTW, I lived in the segregated South, but when I moved to Chicago in 1979, I immediately discovered that it was even more segregated and racist than Chapel Hill, NC.
I read the day after R-V-W the DNC was donated 80 mil. Don’t despair.
I hope they use it for effective messaging. God knows, republicans have given them enough ammunition
79K women had Abortions in FL last yr. They couldn’t have all been Dem’s.And I know they are not all Black Americans
MarciaRockvegas -- "79K women had Abortions in FL last yr."
https://www.abort73.com/abortion_facts/states/florida/
I prefer to donate to individual candidates and Fair Fight. Sometimes to Democratic Attorneys General. What do you think?
I think what you can afford should be spread around. It didn’t state who or where the donations went to. The FL guy, not TFG has bragged that his Campaign alone has taken in over a Million.Yrs ago I read back in the 1950’s there were about 200 Lobbyist. Today, 10k -15 K maybe more since my last search of them. We have lots of Millionaires now. 750 there abouts Billionaires and Trillionairs. How much Democracy can all of us afford ?
R-V-W?
Roe Versus Wade
Ah. Thanks.
Friends from Chicago spoke of their surprise at the number of mixed couples we have here in France, saying you'd never see that in their city...
We in turn are surprised by many apparent obsessions in American society with ideas that have gotten lodged in people's heads; fixed ideas about things like features and skin color ("race") or "gender"... or "rugged individualism" -- commonly expressed as thoroughgoing conformism. Ideas that solidify into tumors. All accompanied by blind collective belief, typically in things that are radically incompatible.
Chapel Hill has been a bastion of enlightenment, relatively speaking.
Ha! Good ol' Apple Chill. ;) I attended graduate school there, many decades ago. I remember when Jesse Helms suggested building a fence around Chapel Hill.
OMG, Jesse Helms—I’d forgotten about the fence, but he and his ilk certainly thought the place was full of communists.
Agree! Took them an awfully long time to get rid of Silent Sam (confederate soldier statue) though.
It's not preaching to the choir, Joanna, it's giving your legislators the stats they need to prove this is an issue their constituents care about. You also provide fresh language for them to articulate the case for legislation. My personal goal is to eradicate 'at the end of the day' or 'the American people want' (that one is Mitch's). Fresh language, original perspectives on issues, wake people up.
Thank you—I need courage and hope, and this helps.