I know I've said that before but I can't get over it. We know how to solve a serious social issue, but we choose not to. Instead we're spending more money to make it worse just to be cruel to people who can't fight back. I don't know how to fix a cultural rot like that.

you don’t need to explain the reasons in the replies I promise, but it’s still so dumbfounding that the “we are going to take your money and give it to people who are already richer than you, we have done it before and will do it again” party has ever won a single election

This is the least optimistic about the direction of the country I've felt since Election Day. Democracy can survive almost anything except for an unwillingness to defend it.

congress right now has all the power it needs to put an end to MAGA despotism. they just don’t want to. and there is no set of rules you could devise that could overcome that obstacle.