• taiyang@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    This is the correct takeaway. Harris is by no means a fringe leftie (or Marxist lol) but the only courting she’s doing is having people who already sided with her speak on her behalf (like at DNC).

    Otherwise, most of her shifts are towards the battleground state, like fracking. No idea why that wins over Pennsylvania (gotta love the toxic water!) but until we fix our elections that’s just gonna happen.

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      2 months ago

      My favorite idea for improving democracy comes from Robert Heinlein’s novel ‘Double Star.’

      His idea was that people could choose their ‘state’ based on their own interests. Instead of being a New Yorker or a Virginian people could pick to be ‘soccer mom’ or ‘IT professional’ or ‘anarchist’ or ‘teacher.’ The book is light on details, though.