leupagus:mindynovak:jenniferrpovey:thefingerfuckingfemalefury:liberalsarecool:Bernie has established
leupagus:mindynovak:jenniferrpovey:thefingerfuckingfemalefury:liberalsarecool:Bernie has established himself. He will continue to fight for his policies. Voting Democratic is the only real option.THISIt doesn’t matter if you’re dissapointed or upset that Bernie Sanders isn’t the democrat nominee…if you want to see ANY of his policies have a chance of happening you still need to vote democrat in this election and vote for Hillary Clinton because you can sure as hell bet that if Trump gets in we’re not going to see ANY of Bernie’s policies happen Even more importantly, vote down the ticket.Because right now, whichever Democrat wins will have their policies stonewalled by the Republican congress.Vote for the House. Vote for the Senate. Vote for your state officials. Vote for your county board.Vote all the way down the ticket. Put progressives in any place you can. There’s a bit of a mono-focus on the President right now.The President can only do so much.A crucial position to vote for are district attorneys / prosecutors!! These are the people who decided that no charges should be filed against the police officers in Tamir Rice and Laquan McDonald’s cases, for example 95 percent of elected prosecutors are white;79 percent are white men;three in five states have no black elected prosecutors;14 states have no elected prosecutors of color at all*;just 1 percent of elected prosecutors are minority women.http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/07/american-prosecutors-are-incredible-whitedoes-it-matter/397847/“It’s rare for incumbent prosecutors to be voted out of office. According to one study, they win re-election 95 percent of the time, and typically they run unopposed” http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2016/03/the_prosecutors_in_the_tamir_rice_and_laquan_mcdonald_cases_lose_their_primary.htmlETA in case you don’t think prosecutors matter: in my mom’s birthplace, St. Lawrence County, there is a racist witchhunt going on because a white prosecutor got her position by promising that she would arrest the Black man accused (with pathetically little evidence) of killing a white child in 2011. The former prosecutor had pointed out that there wasn’t enough evidence to make an arrest, much less go to trial, but because voters wanted a lynching more than they wanted justice, he was voted out and this racist lady was voted in.So yeah, vote down ticket. -- source link
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