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Amazing

I'm bothered in particular in that there is this loophole where Canadian companies can sell to the US - and then those arms end up going to Israel. Apparently, since the Canadian-US relationship is considered special, this isn't tracked or counted.

When you think about it, in some ways it's not that unreasonable of an assumption. 300 - 110 (who couldn't get into the building) = 190 (who voted to end martial law)

If you could the votes of those who were actually present, then you could say it was unanimous.

That said, a PPP delegate who was going to vote against probably didn't have a whole lot of incentive to try and get into the building (suggesting the possibility that it might be reasonable to count at least some of the "unable to get in" folks as no votes).

Good to hear that these are already being used

I think so too, but a couple of things to note here:

Back in 2022 it might have already been clear to someone observant in Canadian politics that Trudeau was becoming a liability and that the Conservatives were on their way to becoming ascendant. Perhaps they even suspected the rise of Poilievre.

Meanwhile, the family's attempted crossing happened almost exactly one year after Biden defeated the MAGA President, suggesting a turnaround down South. (Also, as a practical matter, I can see a family of four needing an entire year to wrap up their lives in their current city before executing on a big move like this.) We know now that this wasn't going to last in the US, but back in 2022 I can see why someone would be more optimistic about that.

And of course if politics didn't come into play, then they may have run the numbers and found parts of the US more affordable than Canada. More details on both points available over at https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadians-moving-to-the-us-hits-10-year-high-1.7218479

Finally, this is an issue that goes both ways. Folks have also tried to cross from the US into Canada and also nearly froze to death, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44865022

Ditto

Good summary. Agree completely with the article - it actually makes sense out of the blind spot that Dems had in this election. Plus that pointer on how Mexico bucked the worldwide trend theorectically gives Dems a pointer on how to recalibrate and take back the initiative.

It seems to me that rather than explicitly trying to listen to the elite and ignore the cries of the common class, the article instead explains that the indicators that Dems were using to get a measure on the economy sort of betrayed them. See for example,

For those focused on short-term macroeconomic indicators like growth and unemployment, that immiseration has been hard to see—and voters’ cries of misery beggared belief.

And also,

rates of homelessness and child poverty predictably resurged. Yet since this was in effect simply a return to the pre-Covid norm, it seems to have barely registered

They saw the traditional indicators said things looked great and rolled with that, instead of digging deeper after a pandemic unprecedented in modern times to see if maybe those traditions had become outdated (as the article hints at).

Overall this is a more positive take, because it means that if Dems just looked at the wrong place and got the wrong idea as a result, they'd be more open making whatever necessary adjustments are needed to avoid a repeat mistake.

I think this is the right idea. Rather than having a single party that tries to represent everyone (from moderate never-Trumpers to progressives like Sanders to to far-left folks like Andrew Yang (UBI)), have separate parties and platforms for these very different folks.

But maybe keep the DNC as a kind of shell or umbrella - since these folks would need to unify on a candidate for President (to prevent splitting of votes leading to MAGA forever winning the presidency). I'm guessing each party (nevers, progressive party, UBI party, etc) would hold their own primary for a presidential candidate, then hold a "joint group primary" to pick just one to run in the general election.

Do you have a source for the numbers?

I was an insightful post over at https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/18340229 a little over a week ago. It was made before the final numbers were in, but if you look at Wisconsin and North Carolina for example, Harris did better in those battleground states in 2024 than Biden did in 2020 (when he won). And then orange voldemort somehow did even better than Harris there.

Turnout was lower overall, but the author of that post suggests it is because of low turnout or protest votes in the deep blue states.

Thanks to the stupid Electoral College, that didn't matter. We can get 100% turnout in California and New York, and have every single vote there go blue, and still lose.

DNC leadership knows this. Without the center, they figure that there's no chance in holding the blue wall. I'd love for them and myself to be proven wrong (though I suspect it may be too late for that, either way).

I think piefed.social/pyfedi (which is slowly implementing support for all such objects) should get a mention here as well