A song titled This is America was plagiarized?

But it is functional.

So how do you personally go about changing people’s minds?

I’d agree with that. I’m sure produce prices will rise as a result of a worker shortages but the negative effects of tariffs will take years to be fully realized.  They’ll be there, and they’ll be bad, but it takes time for everything to adjust.

I think it’s worth adding that the INS had an enforcement arm. It wasn’t just doing paper work on documented immigrants and letting undocumented immigrants into the country. 

I think they understand it as an ideology, but in their mind, to say someone has a “racist” ideology they need to be literally wearing a swastika and/or burning a cross with a pillow case over their heads.

But it’s the primary one, and most of the other methods you’re talking about all involve influencing people to use it for the most part.

I wouldn’t say they’re a shit feedback system. In the course of our history, elections generally align with who winds up winning.

Well, maybe. I’m not so sure “clapback gerrymandering” would in fact be an improvement. Oh sure it might result in some temporary electoral relief but if we don’t solve the problem coherently, we’re just amplifying our problems in terms of an inability to get society to evolve.

This isn’t snark, but a genuine question: don’t enough people vote for it to be a plenty large enough sample of the whole US, that we know what would happen if more people voted? I can’t imagine things would be much different.

The benefits of robust and strong public education are just too gigantic to not invest in.

I’m sort of ambivalent on whether denying them service is meaningful, but isn’t the answer as simple as walking up to them and telling them that?

It’s not going to happen even if things go stupendously, but if we’re imagining a scenario where Democrats have the extraordinary gains necessary to “gerrymander the shit out of the districts”, then what they should do is pass legislation that establishes coherent and fairly rigid mapping laws for districts.

That’s a great narrative based on a handful of anecdotes and all, but reality’s not likely to play out that neatly.

Hmmm, that’s an interesting theory.

He won the election though.

Undoubtedly, but the only way over that is to make the sacrifices necessary to vote.

To say it’s not “great” is not the same thing as saying it’s not present. There have been plenty of times our country has gone from having bad elected leadership that took the country in a bad direction to having good elected leadership that took it in a better direction. Never probably the “perfect” direction, but…

You want to have a better education system?

Please, tell me all about all the things that Hilary Clinton stole.