{"id":396552,"date":"2019-02-20T18:23:51","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T17:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-movement-and-the-2020-elections\/"},"modified":"2019-02-20T18:23:51","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T17:23:51","slug":"the-movement-and-the-2020-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-movement-and-the-2020-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"The Movement And The 2020 Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2019\/02\/the-movement-and-the-2020-elections\/1justice-e1550503352985\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-89501\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-89501\" src=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/1justice-e1550602503122.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The political system in the United States is a plutocracy, one that works for the benefit of the wealthy, not the people. Although we face growing crises on multiple fronts \u2013 economic insecurity, a violent and racist state, environmental devastation, never-ending wars and more \u2013 neither of the Wall Street-funded political parties will take action to respond. Instead, they are helping the rich get richer.<\/p>\n<p>The wealth divide has gotten so severe that three people have <a href=\"https:\/\/inequality.org\/facts\/wealth-inequality\/\">more wealth<\/a> than the bottom 50% of people in the country. Without the support of the rich, it is nearly impossible to compete in elections. In 2016, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/niallmccarthy\/2017\/04\/18\/the-2016-election-had-a-6-5-billion-dollar-price-tag-infographic\/#7b423f2e1544\">more than $6.5 billion was spent on the federal elections<\/a>, a record that will surely be broken in 2020.\u00a0More than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/08\/02\/us\/small-pool-of-rich-donors-dominates-election-giving.html\">half that money came from less than 400 people<\/a>, from fewer than 150 families.<\/p>\n<p>People are aware of this corruption and are leaving the two Wall Street parties. According to the census, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/niallmccarthy\/2017\/04\/18\/the-2016-election-had-a-6-5-billion-dollar-price-tag-infographic\/#7b423f2e1544\">21.4% of people do not register to vote<\/a>, and in 2018, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/11\/08\/665197690\/a-boatload-of-ballots-midterm-voter-turnout-hit-50-year-high\">less than a majority<\/a> of registered voters voted.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.people-press.org\/2015\/04\/07\/a-deep-dive-into-party-affiliation\/\">According to Pew Research<\/a>, independents (40% of voters) outnumber Democrats (30%) and Republicans (24%). The largest category of registered voters is non-voters. Yet, the media primarily covers those who run within the two parties, or billionaire independent candidates who do not represent the views of most people.<\/p>\n<p>This raises a question for social movements: What can be done to advance our agenda over the next two years when attention will be devoted&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2019\/02\/the-movement-and-the-2020-elections\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The political system in the United States is a plutocracy, one that works for the benefit of the wealthy, not the people. Although we face growing crises on multiple fronts \u2013 economic insecurity, a violent and racist state, environmental devastation, never-ending wars and more \u2013 neither of the Wall Street-funded political parties will take action [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-396552","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}