A few thoughts.

The 58% figure is 58% of registered voters. The bulk of the GOP’s disenfranchisement efforts are focused around preventing people from registering to vote in the first place.

Yes.

I mean, we had the INS, which had all of the powers ICE does, and was just as beholden to the President.

I don’t think Sanders is laboring under the delusion that Trump will actually do that. I think he’s saying that so he can say “I asked Donald Trump to sit down with Congress and come up with rational immigration policy and he refused to”.

A well-designed political system would have a built-in feedback system to ensure that those making the decisions are also subject to the consequences of those decisions

And yet, D.C. still has the same sorts of stupid liquor laws that states do.

Highlighting chiefly the stupidity of state liquor licensing laws.  

Poof lets one Meepo teleport to another Meepo, dealing damage in a small area of effect both where he started from and where he ends up.

They should do an episode that shows the grim reality of what happens in the scenario of working people where one of them is loafing on chores.

I know it is. The problem is that it’s not used in accordance with that “real” definition in any meaningful sense of the word by progressives.

it’s as if you’ve never heard of a multi-party system or been out of the U.S.

DEBOER A NEOLIBERAL?

Yeah of course YOU would show up and make a ‘both sides’ argument about this! Derailment! That’s a Post Ergo Ad Hoc Logo Fallacy! You fucking fascist capitalist pig! You feckless Randian shill! You... you... you... dirty neoliberal!

Sure, the state senator is more powerful, but the problem is that in order to wield political power in a pure democracy you need to be a part of the largest group of voters.

Sure, but being in a democracy wouldn’t mitigate their struggle to vote. You’d still have to get registered, you’d still have to have access to information on where polling places are, and so on.

While you’re right about overwork in general, with respect to first world countries, Japan’s pretty singular by comparison in terms of death from overwork.

I don’t think that’s what most studies bear out.  They show a loss in marginal productivity, but not total productivity.  Not at first anyways.  Sure over a long enough timeline you’ll be tired and burnt out, but for short spells, you can get more done.

I’m sorry you’re too dense to understand the difference between something that is binary, such as an up or down vote in a democracy, and something that is cumulative, such as revenue.

We’re talking about a democracy though, which the Electoral College isn’t a part of.