Trump Wins, Cory Doctorow Has Cancer

Cory will be OK, but I'm worried about the USA.

If Trump accomplishes half of what he says he wants to accomplish, we're in big trouble.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/11/06/us-second-trump-term-threat-rights-us-world-0 President Trump vs human rights
https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/05/carcinoma-angels/ from Cory about his cancer
https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5181315 The Dow Jones jumps over 1,300 points after Trump wins the election

This vindicates all the things I wrote about the Democrats screwing up, but that's small comfort now.

First the Democrats were the party of slavery.
Then they were the party of racial segregation.
Then, for a short time, they were the party of labor rights and black civil rights.
Then Bill Clinton took over, and they became, and still are, the US equivalent of Tony Blair's New Labour Party.

So what should progressives do? Migrate to the Green Party en masse? Start a new Progressive Party? Try to do to the leadership of the Democratic Party what Trump did to the Republicans?

I favor a new Progressive Party that would be built around the few real progressives in Congress. The new party should be a labor party. It should be a populist party, fighting the wealthy elite (Musk, Bezos, the mega-corporations, etc.). It should advocate buying locally produced products over imports. It should advocate more local production, especially of semiconductors and other items essential to economic survival. It should advocate international partnerships and treaties designed to end discrimination against certain ethnic and national groups (e.g., Russia should stop trying to end Ukraine, Israel should stop trying to end Palestine, Turkey should stop trying to end the Kurds, all former colonial empires should stop trying to "assimilate" indigenous people, etc.). It should stop attempts to worsen the on-going climate catastrophe. It should oppose government involvement in anything to do with sexuality and reproduction. It should oppose misogyny. Most of all, it should oppose rewarding greed.

Why did Trump win?

I would say, he appealed to blue collar workers more than the Democrats. Think about what that says about the Democrats.

He also appealed to misogynists who can't stand the idea of a female President. Why weren't we expecting this?

He appealed to all kinds of xenophobes, including racists and Christian Nationalists.

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