Renzetti | DEI wins the midterms

Nice turn of events after all the nastiness:

…It’s not surprising that the women who won gubernatorial races ran on platforms of restoring public education and opposing data centres. They listened to constituents who are worried about their children’s futures and feel powerless to stop big money rushing in to buy up land in their states. Each of the candidates promoted a people-centred vision of what the future could look like.

These candidates didn’t run solely on their identities. They might even disavow the term DEI, which has been effectively degraded to the status of a leper’s bell — but they represent its value anyway. They ran on economic populism, affordability, the price of groceries, protecting reproductive choice, shoring up education. Each of them spent years in the trenches of public service — serving on school boards, public-health agencies, municipal councils. Not one of them is a billionaire. That’s identity too.

The last decade has been exhausting, watching our southern neighbours turn on each other, and on their most vulnerable. We’ve been forced to watch Nightmare on Pennsylvania Avenue on an endless loop. It seemed like jackal politics might be in the ascendant forever.

That’s why it was so joyful to wake up to new faces, and new possibilities. Big money got defeated in this election, alongside big tech. Expertise, hustle and lived experience won. A different vision of power won.

Source: Opinion | DEI wins the midterms