The #RepublicanParty, a coalition between Big Business farmers and turkeys who'll vote for Christmas (Red Scare cowards, apocalyptic white nationalists, religious fanatics, etc) has fallen to its bizarre, violent radical wing, who obsessed pver policies that are irrelevant to the majority of Americans.
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https://www.oliverexplains.com/p/conservatives-arent-like-normal-americans
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Conservatives Aren't Like Normal Americans, But The Media Won't Admit That
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But, as Willis says, Dems "act like it is 1984 and that they are outliers in a nation of Reagan voters," echoing a stilted media narrative. The GOP's platform just isn't popular. Take the #Groomer panic: 71% of Americans approve of same-sex marriage. The people losing their shit about queer people are a strange, tiny minority.
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Cory Doctorow
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But on the other hand? The GOP leadership have actually *declared war* on the biggest corporations in America, to the point that the *#WSJ* says that "Republicans and Big Business broke up":
https://www.wsj.com/articles/republicans-corporations-donations-pacs-9b5b202b
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How Republicans and Big Business Broke Up
Brody Mullins (The Wall Street Journal)Cory Doctorow
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There's an important lesson there for Dems, whose establishment is volubly proud of its independence from its voters.
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Cory Doctorow
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That's how you get *incredible* appointments like #LinaKhan at the #FTC and #JonathanKanter at #DoJ #AntitrustDivision and #RohitChopra at the #CFPB.
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Cory Doctorow
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Likewise, #JaredBernstein, *finally* confirmed as #CouncilOfEconomicAdvisors chair after an interminable wrangle:
https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2023-06-16-team-biden/
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Team Biden
Robert Kuttner (The American Prospect)Cory Doctorow
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https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/06/14/statement-from-president-biden-on-labor-agreement-at-west-coast-ports/
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Statement from President Biden on Labor Agreement at West Coast Ports | The White House
The White HouseCory Doctorow
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https://doctorow.medium.com/culture-war-bullshit-stole-your-broadband-4ce1ffb16dc5
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Culture War Bullshit Stole Your Broadband - Cory Doctorow - Medium
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https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/11/dinah-wont-you-blow/#ecp
By refusing to stand for anything except a fair division of powers among different Democratic Party blocs, the Biden admin ends up undercutting itself.
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Cory Doctorow
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https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/18/administrative-competence/#i-know-stuff
Right to Repair fights have been carried out at the state level for years, with the biggest victory coming in #Massachusetts, where an automotive #R2R ballot initiative won overwhelming support in 2020:
https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/13/said-no-one-ever/#r2r
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Cory Doctorow
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https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/26/nixing-the-fix/#r2r
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https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7bbkv/biden-administration-tells-car-companies-to-ignore-right-to-repair-law-people-overwhelmingly-voted-for
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Biden Administration Tells Car Companies to Ignore Right to Repair Law People Overwhelmingly Voted For
Jason Koebler (VICE)Cory Doctorow
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https://pluralistic.net/2020/09/03/rip-david-graeber/#rolling-surveillance-platforms
The idea that cybersecurity is best maintained by letting powerful corporations gouge you on service and parts is belied by independent experts, like #SecuRepairs, who do important work countering the FUD thrown off by the industry (and parroted by Biden's NHTSA):
https://securepairs.org/
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securepairs.org
securepairs.orgCory Doctorow
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https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2022/01/letter-to-the-us-senate-judiciary-committee-on-app-stores.html
But here we are: the Biden admin is sabotaging the Biden admin, because the Biden admin isn't an administration, it's a system for ensuring proportional representation of different parts of the Democratic Party coalition.
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Cory Doctorow
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https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/23/narrative-warfare/#giridharadas
The failure to deliver a coherent, muscular vision for a climate-ready, anti-Gilded Age America has left the Democrats vulnerable.
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Cory Doctorow
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Nowhere is this better explained than in #NaomiKlein's superb long-form article on #RFKJr's presidential bid in *The Guardian*:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/14/ignoring-robert-f-kennedy-jr-not-an-option
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Beware: we ignore Robert F Kennedy Jr’s candidacy at our peril
Naomi Klein (The Guardian)Cory Doctorow
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But as Klein points out, RFK Jr is not peddling pizzaburgers. He is tapping into a legitimate rage:
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As Klein says, despite RFK Jr's willing to say the unsayable, and tap into the yearning among the majority of American voters for something *different*, he's *not* running a campaign rooted in finally telling the American public “the truth.”
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Cory Doctorow
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We've been here before. Remember Trump campaigning against a "rigged system" and promising to "make America great again?" Remember Clinton's rejoinder that "America was already great?"
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Cory Doctorow
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Sure, it was obvious that Trump was a beneficiary of the rigged system, and that he would rig it further, but at least he admitted it was rigged, not "already great."
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Cory Doctorow
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In this regard, winning the American electorate is a macrocosm for the way labor activists win union majorities in the workplaces they organize.
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https://doctorow.medium.com/a-collective-bargain-a48925f944fe
But despite all this, labor organizers win union elections *and* strike votes, and they do so with *stupendous* majorities - 95% or higher.
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A Collective Bargain - Cory Doctorow - Medium
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As I wrote in my review of MacAlevey's book:
> For McAlevey, saving America is just a scaled up version of the union organizer’s day-job. First, we fix the corrupt union, firing its sellout leaders and replacing them with fighters.
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> It’s a far cry from the Democratic Party consultant’s “data-driven” microtargeting strategy based on eking out tiny, fragile majorities with Facebook ads.
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Cory Doctorow
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> What’s more, the consultants’ microtargeting strategy treats people as if the only thing they have to contribute is casting a ballot every couple years. A sleeping electorate will never win the fights that matter — the fight to save our planet, and to abolish billionaires.
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