Finland’s wealth gap hits record high as richest 10% own majority https://www.byteseu.com/824533/ #10 #distribution #Finland #GAP #households #Inequality #Inflation #majority #money #nation #net #own #richest #wealth

Sometime in the next few months voters in NY-21 will choose a replacement for Elise Stefanik

Our candidate is awesome New York dairy farmer Democrat Blake Gendebien

Please help him win this seat any way you can. Mike Johnson's fascist majority is razor thin. This matters.

The #essence of a #democracy is not that the #majority #decides, but that the majority #protects the #minority.

https://www.principlesofdemocracy.org/majority

A quotation from Lincoln

A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Speech (1861-03-04), Inaugural Address, Washington, D. C.

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/2539…

#quote #quotes #quotation #anarchy, #authoritarianism #checksandbalances #Constitution #democracy #despotism #government #majority #mobrule #populargovernment #popularopinion #sovereignty #tyranny

In #USA the #majority of voters have favored preserving or increasing funding for the Department of #Education.

Unfortunately for those voters, the people that agree with them did NOT win the last election, and federal gov primed and in a rush to destroy #Dept of #Edu along with any #DEI initiatives

As scapegoating and irate legislative attacks against #Diversity in educational initiatives continues, silence = complicity.

While #DJT #RWNJ wage war of #WhiteSupremacist rooted rants , the constant and oft uninformed attacks against inclusion policies reveal a rabid #racist retelling of false facts flagrantly spewed to spread bigotry, and destroy confidence in people of color's qualifications, while few say anything to oppose this #NeoNazi narrative.

The blaming of the tragic plane crash over the #Potomac brought on a new low, and few, if any, stood and denounced the words that spewed from the #President's #bully pulpit.

https://briefly.co/anchor/Higher_education/story/as-dei-is-scapegoated-silence-is-complicity-opinion

Ari Berman reports for Mother Jones:

The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee (DLCC) top targets for the 2025-2026 elections include defending one-seat majorities in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Alaska, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.

DLCC wrote in a recent strategy memo. "Majorities in many states will likely come down to just a few districts and hundreds of votes."
#USA #state #legislature #democrats #elections #majority

#majority : the condition of being of full age, or authorized by law to manage one's own affairs

- French: majorité

- German: die Mehrheit

- Italian: maggiore età,maggiorenne

- Portuguese: maioria

- Spanish: mayoría

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Word of The Hour's Annual Survey @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/form

For the ones asking why democrats don't do enough to safe #democracy: Democracy is a #choice made by the #majority of the #people. You can't ask democracy to safe itself and support you. It depends on your #choice and your #voice. You're the one creating democracy by uniting a majority.

There is only ONE WAY
To hope to 'curb' #Fascism in #America
>Only one<
(and it is not said that it is enough)

Give the #Majority in #Parliament / #Senate to #Democrats
if Democrats have a majority perhaps (maybe)
they will be able to limit the damage
(But at this point it's not sure they can)
If #Americans want to 'save the salvable'
It is the only opportunity that remains
Give the majority in Parliament and in the Senate to the Democrats
>as soon as possible<

probably is already too late

#News #USA #Majority of #Voters will be enjoying the latest from #Rapist47 until they find out they are like...
#FirstTheyCame

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗬𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘆𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗯𝗲 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲-𝗼𝗿-𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸 𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘆 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨.𝗦. 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗲.

T𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘦'𝘴 𝘧𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘱𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘶𝘱 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘈𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘭𝘢 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵.

Because if Angela loses this race to Larry Hogan, Democrats can kiss the #majority goodbye.

But polling is TIED, and we're running out of time to connect with voters.

We've gotta help Angela pull ahead, and that starts by hitting our critical $500,000 FEC End-of-Quarter goal before Monday's midnight deadline.

𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗸𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗮 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽 𝗼𝗳 𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗿𝘀, 𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝘂𝗽 𝘁𝗼 $𝟭𝟱𝟬,𝟬𝟬𝟬,

𝗺𝗲𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗶𝗴𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗔𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗹𝗮 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗷𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆!

Can Angela count on you to chip in $25 (or whatever you can afford) and have it doubled today so we can win the race that will decide Senate control?

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bs_sms_acq_hel_aal_0924_match?refcode=SMS_240926_NCFNYT&amount=25

- Team #Angela #Alsobrooks

Can't say I disagree with #NikkiHaley at least on this wk's tagline, who has wisely seized upon the #campaignslogan pitching herself as the best hope against #TheTrumpBidenNightmare

The ex SC gov pointing out with the #majority of #Americans are not thrilled about having #octogenarians battling for a #duopoly #gerontocracy #PresidentialElection

No, they don’t
#majority

Theda Skocpol, a professor of political science and sociology at Harvard, contended that many of the developments in states controlled by Republicans are a result of careful, long-term #planning by conservative strategists, particularly those in the #Federalist #Society, who are developing tools to build what she called “#minority #authoritarianism” within the context of a nominally democratic system of government.

Skocpol outlined her thinking in an email:

The first-movers who figured out how to configure this new “laboratory of democratic constriction” were legal eagles in the Federalist Society and beyond, because the key structural dynamic in the current G.O.P. gallop toward minority authoritarianism is the mutual interlock between post-2010 Republican control, often supermajority control, of dozens of #state #legislatures and the #SCOTUS #decision in 2019 to allow even the most #extreme and bizarre forms of partisan #gerrymandering.

These organized, richly resourced actors, she wrote,
"have figured out how to #rig the current U.S. #system of #federalism and #divided #branches, given generational and geographic realities on the ground, and the in many ways fluky 2016 presidential election gave them what they needed to put the interlock in place. They are stoking and using the fears and resentments of about half or so of the G.O.P. popular base to #undo #American #democracy and #enhance their own #power and #privileges. They are doing it because they can, and they believe in what they are doing. They are America’s G.O.P. Leninists.
Skocpol did not pull her punches:

This situation, locked in place by a #corruptly #installed #Supreme #Court #majority and by many #rotten-borough #judicial #districts like the one in #Amarillo, means that minority #authoritarians, behind a bare facade of “#constitutionalism,” can render majority-elected officials, including the president and many governors, officials in name only. The great thing from the minority authoritarian point of view is that those visible chief executives (and urban mayors and district attorneys) can still be blamed for government nonfunction and societal problems, but they cannot address them with even broadly supported measures (such as simple background checks for having military assault weapons).

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/12/opinion/republican-party-intrusive-government.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Call it an escape valve, an off-ramp or a break-glass-in-case-of-emergency option.

From Pennsylvania Avenue to Wall Street to Main Street, those anxious about the political #impasse over #raising the federal #debt #limit are eying an arcane, seldom successful congressional process known as a #discharge #petition as a possible solution to ward off a disastrous default.
The petition is just what its name implies: a signed demand, in this case bearing the #signatures of a #majority of the #House, that can force consideration on the floor of a certain piece of legislation.
The demand would be an increase in the federal debt limit — a way of staving off disaster if House Republicans refuse to agree to raise it before the Treasury Department exhausts its legal authority to borrow to pay its creditors this summer.
But the process is exceedingly difficult, time-consuming and easily derailed. It has been successful only rarely in recent decades, most notably with passage of a campaign finance overhaul in 2002.
That high degree of difficulty — and the economic threat posed by a federal default — has some #Democrats urging their colleagues in the House to, at minimum, #begin #the #process #soon.
They see it as a safeguard in the event that dormant debt talks between President Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy deteriorate further and the country finds itself on the brink of economic peril with no end in sight this year.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/07/us/politics/debt-ceiling-discharge-petition.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Wisconsin Supreme Court election: Judge Janet Protasiewicz wins

Judge Janet #Protasiewicz on Tuesday was #elected to #Wisconsin's #supreme #court, giving the key swing state's highest court a #liberal #majority that could potentially expand abortion rights there, AP reports.

The big picture: The seven-member Wisconsin Supreme Court has had a conservative majority since 2008. It's poised to decide in the next few years the constitutionality of a 19th century #abortion #ban that was cited to restrict access to the procedure in the state since the fall of Roe v. Wade.

Protasiewicz will serve a #10-#year #term, succeeding conservative Justice Patience Roggensack, whose term expires in July 2023.
https://www.axios.com/2023/04/05/wisconsin-supreme-court-protasiewicz-win-abortion