Los Angeles going further left, DSA mayoral candidate wins over incumbent Karen Bass

Brilliant. Let's go farther left!

Places like New York City and LA are electing third world leaders because they are full of third world people.

This makes me very happy

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This makes me very happy

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This. 100%.

Sometimes the only way you can teach people how much of a fricking huge mistake they are making is to let them make it and then suffer the repercussions.

Remember the meme:



We're in the 9 o'clock position, heading towards 12. We don't get back to the 3 o'clock position without doing that and elected officials like this numbskull is what that movement looks like.

Damn I hope "reparations" are a day one priority for LA!

I mean a "have it on the desk while I'm being sworn in and I'll sign it thereafter" type of priority.

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they will eventually lear from their mistakes

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History has shown that once that momentum starts, it doesn't stop until society hits bottom. Where that bottom is, that's a good question. Someone running a campaign like Pratt had and still losing (whether due to voters so blindly bias as to vote for self-harm, voter fraud or both) is just a sign they haven't hit bottom yet.

To that point, I think the US is too interconnected for just one state to fail. The whole thing has to hit that bottom as a whole before we move into the environment where enough hard men are created to take back those positions of power and levers of control.

What's frightening here is that unless a turnaround comes soon, an entire generation will assume that the new normal is palatable and make no effort to correct course.
Perhaps tho, consumerism will save the day, and the lusting for bigger TVs will motivate to vote responsibly.
The mid-terms showed me that underestimating good sense from the electorate is impossible.

Sometimes I'd rather not live in interesting times.