Might be the last one for a while.
Nov. 3rd, 2020 08:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plutherusSo... West coast states reported in. All four ballot measures in Oregon passed, by a large margin, including legalizing psilocybin therapy, which surprised me.
We also voted to decriminalize all drugs and fund addiction treatment centers. Also, to limit campaign contributions and expenditures, basically overturning Citizens United within Oregon, which will make it much harder for oligarch candidates to even run -- they'll have to have a message of some kind and communicate it on a level playing field instead of just being backed by megachurches and the king the Saudi Arabia.
And Portland is getting a new citizens oversight board for the police, so that's cool.
New Jersey legalized mushrooms for private use as well, apparently.
Overall, it's been good here for progress. The war on drugs was a disaster from the beginning, solving none of the problems that drugs create while creating a whole lot of new problems.
Oregon doesn't have private prisons so other than police unions there're no huge financial incentives to keep the war going. I'm glad we're finally starting to dismantle some of the damage it causes.
I'm not surprised about the police oversight. In a complete betrayal of our founding fathers' ideals, a lot of Oregonians believe that Black Lives Matter.
My representative, Peter DeFazio is up 10 points over the latest Republican offering, which is a relief, but not surprising. Everybody here loves him because he's a damn good representative, and even being outspent ten to one he's still winning by large margins.
Likewise, Senator Merkley is retaining his seat against challenger who the Republicans thought might have a chance because she's a woman, but they were wrong. But at least now they get to say that Democrats are the real misogynists because they voted against her no matter how much Russian money was pumped into her campaign.
Back to Federal elections, it looks like Biden is going to have to pick up votes in at least a few of the states he's currently behind in, or we're going to have trump again. And, once again, the Republicans may end up picking up some seats in the House. Hopefully, it won't be enough to flip it. I'm worried about that, too. I'm still pissed that people were stupid enough to vote for both Graham and McConnell again.
If Biden does pick up votes in contested states, it'll be from absentee votes and mail in votes, which may not be all counted for several days, so look for Trump to declare himself the winner later tonight and then have a ton of lawyers, as he's promised, to put an end to counting any more ballots after that.
So, it may be, once again, days to weeks before we know for sure who the next president is going to be.
We also voted to decriminalize all drugs and fund addiction treatment centers. Also, to limit campaign contributions and expenditures, basically overturning Citizens United within Oregon, which will make it much harder for oligarch candidates to even run -- they'll have to have a message of some kind and communicate it on a level playing field instead of just being backed by megachurches and the king the Saudi Arabia.
And Portland is getting a new citizens oversight board for the police, so that's cool.
New Jersey legalized mushrooms for private use as well, apparently.
Overall, it's been good here for progress. The war on drugs was a disaster from the beginning, solving none of the problems that drugs create while creating a whole lot of new problems.
Oregon doesn't have private prisons so other than police unions there're no huge financial incentives to keep the war going. I'm glad we're finally starting to dismantle some of the damage it causes.
I'm not surprised about the police oversight. In a complete betrayal of our founding fathers' ideals, a lot of Oregonians believe that Black Lives Matter.
My representative, Peter DeFazio is up 10 points over the latest Republican offering, which is a relief, but not surprising. Everybody here loves him because he's a damn good representative, and even being outspent ten to one he's still winning by large margins.
Likewise, Senator Merkley is retaining his seat against challenger who the Republicans thought might have a chance because she's a woman, but they were wrong. But at least now they get to say that Democrats are the real misogynists because they voted against her no matter how much Russian money was pumped into her campaign.
Back to Federal elections, it looks like Biden is going to have to pick up votes in at least a few of the states he's currently behind in, or we're going to have trump again. And, once again, the Republicans may end up picking up some seats in the House. Hopefully, it won't be enough to flip it. I'm worried about that, too. I'm still pissed that people were stupid enough to vote for both Graham and McConnell again.
If Biden does pick up votes in contested states, it'll be from absentee votes and mail in votes, which may not be all counted for several days, so look for Trump to declare himself the winner later tonight and then have a ton of lawyers, as he's promised, to put an end to counting any more ballots after that.
So, it may be, once again, days to weeks before we know for sure who the next president is going to be.
