I was hopeful last week after Lightfoot ate shit but I'm getting major Bernie-after-Nevada 2020 vibes from where things are now with Johnson. All the big money is behind Vallas and so are all the city's white neighborhoods, and so are a lot of conservative Black voters, frankly.
It's not just that people can't imagine a better future, it's that they're actively distrustful of people who offer one. The Jesse White endorsement sealed it, I think. Better the same shit we've been fed for 50 years, as endorsed by a Chicago political elder, than even the idea that we try something different.
It takes collective, society-wide deprivation and suffering to break people out of their conditioning, and things aren't there yet. Until the US goes through its own century of humiliation we're just going to keep getting Vallases again and again and again, even in a "progressive" bastion like Chicago.
yeah 100% vallas is gonna win , just looking at the numbers that lori + garcia did and where those voters are located on the map. I think both of these constituencies are gonna go to vallas over brandon.
Speaking of constituencies, I saw that the majority of people 30 and under voted for Johnson, but the biggest voter turnout was from people on AARP mailing lists.
Everyone here says that generational politics is stupid, but I don't know. It keeps seeming like any hope for a better future keeps getting fucking destroyed by people who are going to be dead inside a decade.
The voting systems are designed to be this way and we will pretty much never gain ground by using it.