{"id":6405,"date":"2024-11-03T08:40:17","date_gmt":"2024-11-03T08:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africanamericanvoice.net\/?p=6405"},"modified":"2024-11-07T08:42:58","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T08:42:58","slug":"whats-at-stake-vote-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africanamericanvoice.net\/?p=6405","title":{"rendered":"WHAT\u2019S AT STAKE \u2013 VOTE NOW"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Dr. Julianne Malveaux<\/p>\n

I was on a Black Women\u2019s organizing call the other week, when one of the leaders challenged each of us to reach out to ten people to encourage them to vote.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know a soul in my close circle who does not vote, and I don\u2019t seek out folk who proudly say they are not voters.\u00a0 I do collide with a few from time to time, like when I was walking up the street one day when a brother, recognizing me, wanted to argue that voting was a waste of time.\u00a0 I gave him five minutes (set my watch) and then moved on.\u00a0 Most people I know are politically aware, political activists, civic and social justice activists and more.\u00a0 Maybe my circle is too narrow, and I\u2019m all right with it.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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This column is not for those who \u201cdo the right thing\u201d, vote despite their skepticism about our extremely flawed country and our equally flawed political system.\u00a0 This column is for those who wonder about their votes and whether they make a difference. What\u2019s at stake?\u00a0 Every single election since I can remember \u2013 1972 \u2013 we say that this is the \u201cmost important\u201d election in our lifetimes\u201d.\u00a0 Tricky Dick Nixon had 61 percent of the popular vote and swept the Electoral College, winning every state except the District of Columbia and Massachusetts.\u00a0 Nixon steamrolled the liberal McGovern.\u00a0 Was it our most important election ever?\u00a0 One can both argue that and also wonder how our nation might have evolved under a McGovern presidency.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I recall hearing the \u201cmost important election ever\u201d every four years and while it sometimes reads as an exaggeration, sometimes it is more real than we would like to admit.\u00a0 When the Supreme Court stole the 2000 election from then-Vice President Al Gore, that was a consequential election.\u00a0 Did Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton concede too soon in her race against Mr. Trump?\u00a0 To be debated, but many think so.\u00a0 2020 was such a consequential election that the dark forces of Mr. Trump tried to overturn the government to steal the election.\u00a0 Now he says he will pardon them if elected in 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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So in many ways this is a most consequential election.\u00a0 What\u2019s at stake?\u00a0 Some think describing the 45th President as a \u201cthreat to democracy\u201d is extreme and untrue.\u00a0 But Project 2025 shift our system from one with checks and balances to one with imperial power.\u00a0 We have a robust civil service, that a President that adher3s to Project 2025 would shatter, in a system that would allow Presidential appointments to replace civil servants.\u00a0 Black folks, especially Black women would lose from this shift.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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All women, but especially Black women, lose when reproductive rights are restricted.\u00a0 We are also when draconian policies eviscerate public assistance in the name of \u201cwelfare reform\u201d and make even basic health benefits contingent on work.\u00a0 We don\u2019t have the infrastructure to require work, but we do have the ability to punish those who do not have jobs.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Department of Education is on the Project 2025 chopping block, and its elimination would have a widen the achievement gap. Project 2025 would eliminate Head Start, one of our most demonstratively successful government programs.\u00a0 It would eliminate Pell grants, which help hundreds of thousands of student from low and moderate income families to attend college.\u00a0 It would eliminate race-specific programs and affirmative action, by outlawing programs that consider DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) in selection and allocation.\u00a0 Indeed, project 2025 digs into the details of curriculum, regulating the ways subject matter is taught, including history, enslavement and other subjects.\u00a0 Project 2025 would punish universities based on the way some subjects taught.\u00a0 While Project 2025 purports to streamline government, instead it expands government by creating ideological regulators who would eliminate \u201cleft liberals\u201d and \u201cMarxists\u201d from classrooms in elementary and secondary schools, and also in colleges and universities.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Contrasting the Project 2025\/Agenda 47\/Republican platform is to understand the redundancies of these closely related documents. Mr. Trump says that Agenda 47 reflects his positions, and he tries to distance himself from Project 2025, although more than 100 of his allies, associates, and former government appointees worked on it.\u00a0 If you read these documents carefully, you\u2019ll understand what\u2019s at stake.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Law enforcement.\u00a0 The environment.\u00a0 Immigration.\u00a0 Elections.\u00a0 Consumer Protection.\u00a0 Union rights. Wages, Vice President Kamala Harris a distinctively different approach to policy and government than Mr. Trump.\u00a0 Are you willing to live in an oligarchy where one President has the unchecked authority to investigate, fire or prosecute.\u00a0 Are we willing to shrug off our freedoms for a narrow-minded vituperative bigot?\u00a0 What\u2019s at stake?\u00a0 Our very freedoms.\u00a0 Staying home is not an option.\u00a0 VOTE!!!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source: Published without changes from www.juliannemalveaux.com<\/a><\/div>\n
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