Democratic candidates won all 30 of Northern Virginia’s seats in the Virginia House of Delegates on Tuesday as the party was set to significantly expand its 51-49 majority in the state’s lower chamber.
As of 11 p.m., Democrats had picked up 13 seats statewide, according to the Virginia Public Access Project. With only one race undecided, the Democrats will hold at least 64 of the 100 seats, the most they have held in nearly 40 years.
Half of NoVa is on furlough, so I imagine that influenced their voting a bit.
sometimes you just gotta be thankful that despite the ignorance and stupidity of the masses, cons really aren’t that smart beyond the most surface level propaganda
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I see this tossed out casually, as though we live in a world of correct answers that people aren’t picking rather than trade-offs that people aren’t agreeing on.
This rings very “bOtH sIdEs” to me. What are the trade-offs of slowing/stopping climate change? Ending racial discrimination? Unlimited corporate spending on political campaigns? These issues and many others have clear moral imperatives attached, and one side is completely morally bankrupt.
Too numerous to list. You’re talking about fundamental changes to agriculture, transportation - both consumer and commercial, mining, construction, and energy production. Entire industries need to stop what they’re doing. Labor forces need to be fully repurposed. Whole new industries need to be developed to change how our post-industrial society functions.
And because the current state of play is designed to maximize private profits for a central group of very influential stakeholders, what we’re talking about isn’t a simple matter of consumer choices. Its a class conflict that echoes with some of the bloodest acts of state violence committed over the last 200 years.
You talk like the Civil Rights Movement isn’t over sixty years old. Or that there’s national political leadership that isn’t tainted in one way or another by corporate spending. This is obviously not a matter of individual consumerist choice (unless that individual is a trillionaire, and they’ve got some very strong incentives to continue both of the above).
But they still require enormous economic structural changes. Vanishingly few people in positions of authority seem interested in pursuing these changes.