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@codinghorror @carnage4life If the gist of the counterargument is that the broadly stable, prosperous, & free order we were under before didn't benefit everyone -- sure.
But those same people would very likely be even worse off under a less stable, less prosperous, & arbitrary order in this country. A lot of us have family that lives in such places & there's a reason subset of those people would love to emigrate to a US of the previous era, if given the opportunity in spite of the challenges.
@codinghorror @carnage4life Familiar with your commendable initiative, but I guess I'm not following your argument. The Constitution is comically rigid and partisanship -- especially on the right -- is one of a perpetual, ideological/cultural war trying to rollback the progress of the 70s, 30s, etc.
Those seem like side points to the original post IMO.
@codinghorror @carnage4life That’s not the argument being made and is, frankly (and respectfully), a red herring.
Of course problems exist and always would under any system. Many of those problems had workable solutions to alleviate a substantive portion of it, but the electorate, politicians, and corporate interests largely saw to stymie that at various points.
Under the direction we’re currently speed running, good luck getting those solutions through.
