which is disappointing for a few reasons:

1) the implication is "vote for Democrats" who almost never stand up to police unions or pass significant reform... and they wonder why progressives aren't excited to keep voting for them!

2) the other implication, whether intended or not, is that voting is the most important action one could take. not only does that leave people feeling rudderless after each November, but also more direct actions (such as mass protests) have a much better track record for change than voting.

3) we already have a voting drive on every channel, show, website, app etc. i've tried to stop the facebook notifications about a thousand times and they keep fucking popping up. i think people have gotten the message.

4) to your point: their leverage was money. if the players go on strike a lot of people would've lost a lot of money, and fucking with money is one of the greatest ways to bring about change. i don't think the players have a responsibility to strike or anything, BUT i can't help but be disappointed in the end result. i think they were pretty serious about ending the season and got talked out of it by very powerful people who had a lot of money at stake.

the quality of basketball was incredible though. i don't understand CC's point there. not nearly as sloppy as i was expecting. there were some amazing games and we had new stars made.