Examples of Strikes, mass protests, and revolutions that happened when things were easy for the strikers to go out and do them:
Times the police, military, and other centrist citizens did everything to directly stop or persuade them to stop: (all)
People worked right up till they were put in camps in the 30’s, too.
Don’t worry other people will do it just like last time, too.
Absolutely, I just meant that the inhuman monster who was killed wasn’t bourgeoisie, he was an aristocrat. These are rich families that stay rich by exploiting the poor and (few remaining) bourgeoisie.
In end stage capitalism you’re oligarchy, poor, or soon to be one of the two.
Just a reminder but the bourgeoisie are the “middle class”, and that the CEO who was killed is part of a capitalist oligopoly.
The bourgeoisie haven’t been targeted here, an aristocrat has.
https://newrepublic.com/post/169392/full-list-republicans-vote-against-same-sex-marriage
and here’s some anti LGBT-youth stuff https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb20-1144
You’ll notice that in each and every case, the anti LGBT stuff is all Conservative, because Conservatives have that ‘call to the past’ or whatever; where ‘the way things were’ in the past is always better, and in the past women didn’t have rights, LGBT people couldn’t marry, etc.
Liberals don’t actively fight against rights unless it’s an overall popular voter opinion. Conservatives do regardless.
I say this as someone who’s about as far left as one can go. I think you’re A. grossly underestimating how useful ‘letting change happen’ is when it comes to popular opinion on rights, and grossly underestimating how much damage Conservatives clawing and gnashing at allowing rights for more people is.
Gay marriage was legalized under a majority conservative court system way back in 2003.
Again, under a Liberal government. And I keep saying over and over – I know they phone it in and constantly give bigot ‘swing voters’ things they want. I’ve never said anything against that. It had a 60% approval by the public in 2015 when it was fully legalized. So again, for like the fifth goddamn time – Liberal governments can be forced to do these things by popular will. Conservatives won’t (I’m sure there’s like two examples someone will bring up, again, exception proves the rule.)
To sum: Liberals have to be forced to allow LGBT rights by popular opinion. Conservatives do this.
I’d say it was liberals that made it happen once there was overwhelming public support, which again, is performative, but drastically different from actively suppressing it. Someone has to pass the things into laws, and in the US it’s either Republicans or Democrats, and across the board any services those poor people do have was introduced through Democrats.
Again, under duress, I don’t argue otherwise. Up here in Canada it was the Liberals being forced to put Healthcare as a ‘universal’* right by the NDP (our Left wing party), then the NDP again to force Liberals to put Dental care through. But they actually did it, and the Conservatives don’t.
Liberals never actually fix what conservatives screw up.
They do, it’s just they mostly concern themselves with the economic screw ups, less-so the rights ones.
Think ‘gay people can marry and have kids to give us more economic slaves’ vs. ‘gay people can’t marry, can’t have kids, and we’re going to use them as a scapegoat for our issues.’
We’ve already lost that battle sadly. Alberta has Smith (think Marjorie Taylor Greene), the Cons, while refusing to admit climate change is real, and with a leader who spent his entire political career trying to repeal abortion rights/gay rights, have locked away the vote of men with 51%+.
In 2022, 41% of Con voters supported Trump. In 2024, it’s increased to 44% (higher than Biden or Harris in both, though.)
In addition, the Canadian Right-Wing’s favourite Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, heads up a global ‘get Right-Wing governments elected’ organization.
So I wish you the best of luck as well, though I fear we are on similar Germany-in-the-1930’s path).
Help the women and LGBT people in your life, they’re going to need it.
I hate to say it but the NDP need to replace Singh with someone more charismatic.
Right now conservatives feel like the only other option because there’s also enough racists to not to vote for Singh.
Let’s be blunt, the last part is why Singh has to be replaced. This guy got us fucking dental care added to our universal healthcare and people fucking shrugged at it. Rural voters won’t vote him, that’s the ‘issue’ with him in charge.
So the NDP will be forced to pick a white guy to lead and then they can start wrestling away voters from the Lib and Cons. It sucks, but I guess that’s what Canada has decided it is.
EDIT:
Just to be clear, these are who Canadian voters preferred to win the presidency in the US:
Those Con numbers are bleak.
Over 51% of men are voting for Poilivre in the next election. That’s across all age groups. We’re where we usually are: 5-10 years behind something the US is doing.
For sure.
It does not help that her…
And there it is, folks.
the slogan I’ve seen on some shirts, “good thing we are only looking for equality and not revenge” comes to mind.
Jesus Christ, I love that so much.
I’ll take the downvotes, but a large part of this is because she’s a woman. “One candidate (a man) can rant about gibberish while the other (a woman) has to be perfect.” doesn’t just apply to politics, this sounds like every office I’ve ever worked in.
At the same time, we can’t expect every grocery store worker, police officer, air traffic controller, and truck driver, and everyone else, to be off simultaneously on the same day.
Here in BC, in Canada, you’re just guaranteed four hours off to vote. I think that with easier mail-in-voting (also easy to do here) would help you guys a lot.
Not because he’s incoherent–he has been for years–it’s because he’s not popular.
What I am saying is they are getting what they want, it’s just far smaller than most people will expect.
Religious people don’t need an actual religious man up there, they want abortion banned, and he’ll do it, so they vote him. The police want to be unaccountable, with larger and larger budgets, so they vote the guy who will do it. The Police at large won’t suffer with a criminal in charge, it won’t change their day to day at all other than they’ll find it easier to do illegal things that Trump wants.
Organized religion has always been hypocritical, the Jesus-following ones often from the forefront. Jesus would be stoned to death by the current mob of Christians in the US as a Communist/Socialist/etc. Police are often the driving force of Fascist takeovers of nations. The idea they’d allow a criminal in charge seems pretty in-line with the fact huge portions of police are already criminals, they just are either immune/won’t be targeted for prosecution or hide their crimes with their fellow cops.
The Right has virtually always existed with projection, from ‘law and order’ to ‘religious humility’ to ‘non-violent protests.’
It’s morbidly fascinating. Yes, they have “right-wing” in common, but there is a unique betrayal of core principles happening for each of them.
Hasn’t Conservatism always been this way? A big tent of people with single issues they care about, all of whom don’t care what the others want, so long as they get what they want, (almost) always just for themselves.
This is a political group that started with the primary belief that ‘inheritance based on birth was the foundation of a stable society.’
I’ve got bad news for you if you think doing your capitalist duty and going into work while fascists take over is going to somehow work out later.