sidereal@sidereal@kolektiva.social
Like, one reason we don't see more progressive candidates at the local level, especially in smaller towns... is the ones who do stand for elections get a lot of realistic death threats from heavily-armed fascists.
These candidates get essentially zero support from the Democratic Party or local law enforcement. So, many of them drop out, because of the credible death threats. What would you do?
Do those folks have freedom of speech?
sidereal@sidereal@kolektiva.social
Like, I'm not even exaggerating a little bit here. This has happened to multiple people I know personally. In small-town, rural Washington, and right here in Seattle.
These people were standing for elections as progressive members of the Democratic Party. Local chuds threatened to murder them, escalating to physical intimidation outside their homes.
The Democratic Party offered to get them Ring cameras lmao.
