Early voting had been scheduled to begin Saturday for Louisiana’s May 16 primaries. But Republican Gov. Jeff Landry issued an executive order postponing the U.S. House primary in response to a ruling Wednesday by the court that struck down a majority Black congressional district.
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The Republican-controlled secretary of state’s office, which declared an electoral emergency allowing for Landry’s order, said it would post notices at early voting sites alerting the public about the suspended congressional primary. All other races on the ballot will proceed as scheduled.
Actions don’t happen without thoughts, and actions toward change do not start without the hope that success can be had. Hope is integral to change. @normalentrance@lemmy.zip is right to have it, because that’s where ALL change starts.
Hence the propaganda strategy illustrated above: because most civilians will not fire without being fired upon, and because armed protests are either revolutions or failures, by way of false dichotomy it presents the idea there’s nothing left between those two poles.
I should note the finer details like specifically at whom we should shoot have been omitted from the rant; this too is by design. The whole thing is wreathed in colloquial “y’alls” (“look! I’m one of you!”) and then lathered in insults and pejoratives so that the prospective American reader gets emotionally fired up, but then stifled because no one in their right mind is going to just start shooting at nothing for no reason.
This kind of post is ALL about emotional manipulation, nothing more, and from someone not even on this side of the globe.
There’s plenty for us to do before we start shooting. You can keep your despair.
I agree that it doesn’t have to be one or the other. I never said it was. I am saying that only hoping is not enough and must lead to more than thoughts. Action is not necessarily guns but political action.
“Let’s hope” to me is equivalent to “thoughts and prayers”.
No problem, I get it. But hope is where it starts.
If you’re genuinely on the side of Americans getting Americans out of this mess, then don’t stifle hope when you see it.
This is the first time a lot of folks have ever had to be involved in politics, and with lies and propaganda flying in every direction – including here on Lemmy to the point it’s predictable – then save your scorn for the people whose minds you can’t change.
People with hope want to do the right thing, and it’s hard to start.