The Rise of the Left!

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SOURCE: http://www.cnn.com/ 

 

 

[Katharine Hepburn 4,607]

A reverse 1980s expedition

[xoxo cupcakke 4,781]

The Beyhive state knows whats up, better go tell Beyoncé

[REALITY 80,166]

I knew it. It's a lose-lose situation for Trump and the GOP. I really hope these protests and these shouts of anger and frustration keep happening and are taken seriously. 

You know you've f*cked up as a government and as a country when people are as passionate as these people are. They care, they want change, and they want it now. The government needs to hear this and know that the people don't agree with what they stand for.

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@Born To Slay @Morphine Prince @PartySick @Whispering @Redstreak @Luc @FATCAT

@Devyn

 

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1 minute ago, M Monstre said:

I knew it. It's a lose-lose situation for Trump and the GOP. I really hope these protests and these shouts of anger and frustration keep happening and are taken seriously. 

You know you've f*cked up as a government and as a country when people are as passionate as these people are. They care, they want change, and they want it now. The government needs to hear this and know that the people don't agree with what they stand for.

Amen!!!  ✋🏾 ✋🏾 ✋🏾 

 

[Morphine Prince 109,671]

We're here and WILL be heard. Fascism won't take over America. Not on my watch. 

[ItsTommyBitch 12,640]

One can only hope.

The GOP ****ed up BAD by selling out any integrity they had and putting their coins into Trump. The GOP doesn't see themselves as racists and bigots, but the people that vote for them are (go figure  ) and he managed to energize their base right from under them, forcing them to go with him. They should've held their guns till the last second, and not turned into blind followers. Now if he fails, they fail with him (and so far it looks like he is)

As long as we can keep liberals and independents focused and attentive to everything he does for the next few years, I honestly think there is hope that he will be a one term president. When he first won, I expected 8 years, but this current scrutiny he's facing is brutal and actually totally deserved. Like, partisanship aside, hes already done and said really ****ing stupid, unconstitutional things, and those disagreeing with him have actual legal (and moral) basis for doing so other than "He's not who I voted for", which is nice.

When he was campaigning, I always assumed he was at least partially pretending to incompetent, but hes actually stupider and more petty than I thought  (Also, legit narcissistic personality disorder? You tell me  ) and that's simultaneously terrifying, and reassuring...which is why we can't let him get impeached and give the reigns to Mike Pence, at least not yet .

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1 hour ago, Morphine Prince said:

We're here and WILL be heard. Fascism won't take over America. Not on my watch. 

The Evil Orange One begs to differ....

 

[Batwings 12,957]

A bunch of people I know who are Republicans and voted for Trump are really unhappy about the DeVos confirmation which means that not only are they upset with Trump himself, but they are also upset with their Republican representatives who supported the confirmation. 

 

[ItsTommyBitch 12,640]

6 minutes ago, Batwings said:

A bunch of people I know who are Republicans and voted for Trump are really unhappy about the DeVos confirmation which means that not only are they upset with Trump himself, but they are also upset with their Republican representatives who supported the confirmation. 

 

2018 here we come  

I'm an education major and most of my facebook friends are educators. Some of them are staunch Conservatives (Thanks Missouri  ) that voted for Trump and they are absolutely PISSED at the DeVos confirmation.

It makes me hopeful at least  

[Seeka 12,372]

RISE LEFT, RISE. RISE LIKE JOANNE AFTER THE SUPERBOWL.

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24 minutes ago, Seeka said:

RISE LEFT, RISE. RISE LIKE JOANNE AFTER THE SUPERBOWL.

Yassssssssssssss!  

 

[Luc 4,776]

The same is happening in Europe. Anti-Trumpism is a very real sentiment here.

 

 

Germany:

Parliamentary elections. You need 5% of vote share to be represented in parliament ('Bundestag'). The leader of the biggest party in a coalition becomes Chancellor (like Merkel atm).

After Schulz, former EU Parliament president, announced his candidacy for the Social Democratic party, he immediately gained ground for the party. This could mean that not Merkel, a conservative, but a leftist will be the next Chancellor of Germany. There's even a chance that the Social Democrats (centre-left, progressive) will form a coalition with the Leftists (far-left, ties to communism, strong in East-Germany) and Greens (left, very progressive). Gay marriage could finally be legalized in Germany.

CDU/CSU = conservatives, Merkel's party

SPD = social democrats, Schulz' party

AfD = far-right

FDP = centre-right

 

 

France:

First some explanation about the system: no electoral districts, just the most votes. You have a first round and a second round. The two winners of the first round make it to the second round. The winner of the second round becomes president.

In France, centrist-progressive (economy minister in Socialist govt), Emmanuel Macron is gaining ground. It looked like the presidential race would become a battle between a conservative (Fillon) and extreme-right (Le Pen), but that's not the case. Fillon has been caught in a corruption scandal, making it a race between Macron and Le Pen now. Whoever goes against Le Pen will win, just because she's that unpopular. 

The socialist party is in shambles, but Hamon, a Bernie Sanders-like figure, and Mélenchon, a leftist, might unite and become a huge force. If Le Pen went against Macron in the second round, he'd win by a 33% margin right now. That margin is likely to tighten, but not by too much. WikiLeaks is trying to find bad information about him, but the worst they've found is that he's possibly gay, supported Clinton and was a Rothschild banker. Perhaps the hard-left surprises and wins after all, but I don't know if that's what France needs right now.

 

 

Netherlands:

Parliamentary system with equal representation and only 0.7% votes needed for a seat in parliament. Right now the PVV, the far-right, is doing very well in the polls. Don't be scared, though, because every party besides 50+ (pensioners' party) is not willing to work together with the PVV and thus there's no way to get a majority in parliament for Geert Wilders as Prime Minister. Even though the Labour party (PvdA) has lost a lot of ground since the last elections due to collaboration with the centre-right (VVD), the Greens (GL) are doing better than ever and could provide a good alternative to the far-right and right. A functional progressive majority seems unlikely, however, and the centre-right liberals+conservatives and/or centre-right Christians would likely have to join any coalition. A lot can still change, though, because there's still going to be big debates.

VVD = centre-right, slightly conservative

PvdA = centre-left, progressive

PVV = far-right, slightly conservative

SP = far-left, progressive but against globalism

CDA = centre to centre-right, christian conservatives (though they agree with gay marriage nowadays)

D66 = centre, progressive

CU = centre to centre-left, christian conservative but on some fields they're progressive

GL = greens, centre-left, progressive

SGP = far-right, conservative

PvdD = far-left, animal rights' party, progressive

50+ = centre to centre-let, moderate, old people's party

DENK ('other') = progressive, centre-left, immigrants' (mostly Muslims') party

 

 

 

there's hope

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34 minutes ago, Luc said:

The same is happening in Europe. Anti-Trumpism is a very real sentiment here.

 

 

Germany:

Parliamentary elections. You need 5% of vote share to be represented in parliament ('Bundestag'). The leader of the biggest party in a coalition becomes Chancellor (like Merkel atm).

After Schulz, former EU Parliament president, announced his candidacy for the Social Democratic party, he immediately gained ground for the party. This could mean that not Merkel, a conservative, but a leftist will be the next Chancellor of Germany. There's even a chance that the Social Democrats (centre-left, progressive) will form a coalition with the Leftists (far-left, ties to communism, strong in East-Germany) and Greens (left, very progressive). Gay marriage could finally be legalized in Germany.

CDU/CSU = conservatives, Merkel's party

SPD = social democrats, Schulz' party

AfD = far-right

FDP = centre-right

 

 

France:

First some explanation about the system: no electoral districts, just the most votes. You have a first round and a second round. The two winners of the first round make it to the second round. The winner of the second round becomes president.

In France, centrist-progressive (economy minister in Socialist govt), Emmanuel Macron is gaining ground. It looked like the presidential race would become a battle between a conservative (Fillon) and extreme-right (Le Pen), but that's not the case. Fillon has been caught in a corruption scandal, making it a race between Macron and Le Pen now. Whoever goes against Le Pen will win, just because she's that unpopular. 

The socialist party is in shambles, but Hamon, a Bernie Sanders-like figure, and Mélenchon, a leftist, might unite and become a huge force. If Le Pen went against Macron in the second round, he'd win by a 33% margin right now. That margin is likely to tighten, but not by too much. WikiLeaks is trying to find bad information about him, but the worst they've found is that he's possibly gay, supported Clinton and was a Rothschild banker. Perhaps the hard-left surprises and wins after all, but I don't know if that's what France needs right now.

 

 

Netherlands:

Parliamentary system with equal representation and only 0.7% votes needed for a seat in parliament. Right now the PVV, the far-right, is doing very well in the polls. Don't be scared, though, because every party besides 50+ (pensioners' party) is not willing to work together with the PVV and thus there's no way to get a majority in parliament for Geert Wilders as Prime Minister. Even though the Labour party (PvdA) has lost a lot of ground since the last elections due to collaboration with the centre-right (VVD), the Greens (GL) are doing better than ever and could provide a good alternative to the far-right and right. A functional progressive majority seems unlikely, however, and the centre-right liberals+conservatives and/or centre-right Christians would likely have to join any coalition. A lot can still change, though, because there's still going to be big debates.

VVD = centre-right, slightly conservative

PvdA = centre-left, progressive

PVV = far-right, slightly conservative

SP = far-left, progressive but against globalism

CDA = centre to centre-right, christian conservatives (though they agree with gay marriage nowadays)

D66 = centre, progressive

CU = centre to centre-left, christian conservative but on some fields they're progressive

GL = greens, centre-left, progressive

SGP = far-right, conservative

PvdD = far-left, animal rights' party, progressive

50+ = centre to centre-let, moderate, old people's party

DENK ('other') = progressive, centre-left, immigrants' (mostly Muslims') party

 

 

 

there's hope

I swear if they get anymore different parties, we'll be at a Ball...