I love how you use “old racist white guys” with a mocking tone, like they weren’t exactly those things you just said. Hilarious.

I’d be more concerned about your new “traffic cops” in Portland if I was you….

Um, I quoted Federalist 10 in post #76 about an hour ago. But other than that, thanks for the tip.

The tip was designed for the person I quoted.

Also those old racist white guys put in a method for changing the US Constitution which has been used 33 times (I think) where the actual overwhelming public will is there.

I love how you use “old racist white guys” with a mocking tone, like they weren’t exactly those things you just said. Hilarious.

Please read Federalist 10 and to a lesser extent 68 for the love of God.

Um, I quoted Federalist 10 in post #76 about an hour ago. But other than that, thanks for the tip.

This is one of the biggest problems we face as a nation. We’re beholden to a government structure that was put in place 250 years ago, and we treat Teh Founding Fathers™ like those guys were a bunch of demigods.

They did a pretty good job setting up the framework for a democracy, but the weaknesses in their design have been exploited to the point where we really barely have a functioning democracy. But hey, the guys in the powdered wigs who lived 250 years ago are completely infallible, so fuck it.

Uh huh…. we get it…. a bunch of old racist white men writing on dead animal skins…..

Please read Federalist 10 and to a lesser extent 68 for the love of God.

Also those old racist white guys put in a method for changing the US Constitution which has been used 33 times (I think) where the actual overwhelming public will is there.

Or…. we can have an Article V convention of the states and change the entire bloody thing.

Some pretty smart guys put it in place for good reasons so I think I’ll go with their opinion over today’s ideas.

This is one of the biggest problems we face as a nation. We’re beholden to a government structure that was put in place 250 years ago, and we treat Teh Founding Fathers™ like those guys were a bunch of demigods.

They did a pretty good job setting up the framework for a democracy, but the weaknesses in their design have been exploited to the point where we really barely have a functioning democracy. But hey, the guys in the powdered wigs who lived 250 years ago are completely infallible, so fuck it.

I live in California. We have almost 40 million people here, and we get the same two senators that Wyoming gets with their 579,000 people. We have seventy times as many people, and we get the same amount of senators. This is why we have goober ass hick motherfuckers in charge of everything and we’re all going to be underwater in 30 years.

I have a lot of compassion for the immigrants of today. I also have serious reservations about the huge volume and risks of some of it. I think it strains our resources until they assimilate and some countries do open additional risks.

Once again your stating as facts things that have no bearing on reality. Immigration has consistently been shown to be an economic boost. Pre-Trump level of immigration, both legal and illegal, was within historic norms.

As no less than Glenn Greenwald has pointed out, the rise of people like Trump and Bolsonaro is DIRECTLY RELATED to the failures of the established elite that are running things.

The semi-official name for this is Murc’s Law. Regardless of who actually holds power, only Democrats have agency. Greenwald is a big fan of this. From Kavanaugh getting confirmed to the Patriot Act, examples are legion. Policy that comes out of Congress reflects the exact Republican policy goals of the last three decades. They co-sign Trump’s initiatives. They are, in several cases literally, the same folks as who were involved in crafting the bullshit that gets ascribed to Clinton alone.