There is no one who could fight the feds in a civil war right now. They want domestic violence, riots, that they can crack down on to take more power and train people to accept domestic occupation.

Wars require combatants. The troubles in Northern Ireland was not a civil war, and the IRA was far more organized than anything that exists now here in the states.

They want a fight because they think they can win.

Well off working man warns the capitalist class the consequences of stiffing the working class.

One theory is that golden honmoon isn’t what Celine says it is. Celine was in the Sunlight sisters, their honmoon was gold because… Sunlight is golden. Huntrix finally stopped chasing last generations dream with the rainbow honmoon, but no honmoon is ever permanent.

We will see if the guardrails hold again.

Superdelegate have never swayed a primary. Not once. And since the blowback from the 2016 primary, they have changed the rules to ensure that they will never subvert the will of the voters.

The idea that there was some groundwell of support for Bernie that was discouraged from voting at all because the meanie superdelegates had announced who they supported is baseless. Bernie could have faught it out if he got more votes than Hillary. All those governors and former office holders that had those votes had not cast them yet and pledging to support a candidate is not the same as casting your vote at the convention. They might have thought twice about supporting Hillary if she was only getting 48% to Bernie’s 52. That would have been an actual thumb on the scale.

We will never know, because the primary voters wanted Hillary, just like the general election voters.

Fucked over the homeless in Cali, thrown trans people under the bus rhetorically.

He’s not wrong that he has signed a lot of legislation protecting trans Californians, but he’s been going into right wing talk show spaces and nodding soberly saying yeah, you have some good points about their moral panic about us.

Millennials are getting more conservative as they age, at least in the US. We thought this might be true during Trump’s first term when the age gap in voter behavior was so large, but millennials were delayed in reaching the wealth milestones like homeownership and to a lesser degree childbirth. We weren’t shut out entirely.

As millennials reach their peak earning power we will get more conservative still. The fact of the matter is that being poor shortens your life and being rich stunts your empathy. Individuals don’t change their politics much. As time passes the poor die off from the generational cohort and leave the rich conservative assholes.

Wealth concentration to the rich will push each succeeding generation left as a greater proportion of people are locked out of wealth accumulation, but that has a few generations to go before the limits and a tip into facism is always possible as we see right now.

Animation like that cannot be rushed.

All the good will in the world would collapse before the mathematical reality of single member districts.

Ranked choice voting can be done without amendments, and it might move the needle, but a true multiparty system cannot survive single member districts for representation.

Canada and Britain both have single member districts and functionally 2 party systems. Britain is in flux right now due to the collapse of the conservatives and Labor, but they will shake out with a 2 horse race just like Canada does.

Courts need to start having a plan B for when the legislature refuses to play ball. "Submit the new maps for review or the election happens with the maps from 1999!

States are not involved with collecting income taxes generally.

They could refuse to collect income tax from state employees, but that’s only a few billion if all blue states did it.

I said “I want” not “I think it’s gonna happen.” A Nixon situation is the absolute best we can reasonably expect. They didn’t prosecute the criminals from Nixon, or Reagan, or Bush, so I’m not hopeful.

Nothing is certain.

The great recession didn’t touch it. Covid didn’t touch it. Jan 6 didn’t touch it.

Ending the two party system would require changing the way national elections work. That would require a constitutional amendment.

That would require one party taking full control of Congress and more importantly 2 thirds of state legislatures. The most plausible path to that I see currently is trump taking his coup to the next level, interfering in elections nationwide and placing maga in control all over the country.

Then they start passing constitutional amendments changing what it means to be a citizen and who can vote.

“Wait, not like that” you are probably thinking.

That’s why I think there would have to be mass death. The pandemic is probably the next most likely, Democrats seek safety in distance and Republicans cheerfully host parties and deny the threat. The administration blocks efforts by the CDC and other researchers to study the disease. but it’s somehow both deadlier than covid and slower, so by the time hospitals and morgues fill up, way more people are infected than with covid. 120 million Americans die before the crisis stabilizes, 2 thirds of them right leaning and one 3rd left leaning or apolitical.

The next election sweeps democrats into power nationwide, a 50 point swing as so many more right leaning voters have passed and the living turn on the party that refused to address the crisis.

That scenario makes constitutional amendments possible. Maybe not plausible though, they would be rushing to address the crisis, the mass graves, the shattered economy. If the plague somehow hit the billionaire class hard, maybe then.

Things get less likely from there. The US arbitrarily declaring war on the rest of the world, alien invasion, etc.

All I want from a new administration is to prosecute the criminals from this one.

Correction, that person is calling on Americans to commit suicide by cop.

Enough people willing to do it at the same time and it would work. But the death toll would be higher than 9 11. Probably higher than Vietnam. I guess less than world war 1 for America.

Yes, most of us can’t be Chris Dorner, and it didn’t work out well for him.

Getting rid of the 2 party system would require a crisis of such magnitude I cannot in good conscience wish for it.

Losing world war 3. A pandemic 10X deadlier than covid, hostile Aliens, something at that level.

Nothing less will do it.

Bingo. When I start seeing the same content I know it’s time to log out.

Both is possible.