In the short run, this means that the powerful can get their way without consequences — as we know.

But in the longer run, it also means that they become decreasingly knowledgeable about the world. This trend has a breaking point.

Except the problem has never been a lack of public appetite. The problem has always been getting the Democrats to do what the public has an appetite for

That was true even before Citizens United. It's been a problem since before half the people on this website were even born

You can tell, because other than 30 seconds of Walz sound bites about trans issues, the only other time Kamala mentioned trans people at all was repeating "I will follow the law" with a serious face every time she was asked.

You *know* they'd be crowing about increasing the budget by 2%, changing policies to add 15,000 more eligible people, etc.

Like, policy wonkery and bikeshedding, presented as triumphs rather than putting a bandaid on a sucking chest wound.

No normal person can look at the dem track record, and think they will have any interest in fixing shit rather than simply accepting the ruined husk of healthcare as an immutable given.

You cannot possibly expect the current batch of octogenarian inside traders to gain power again and even attempt to restore what will have been lost by 6am today.

They'll act like just getting back to yesterday's barely working status quo is a utopian pie in the sky dream.

In practice, at least one person -- and often more than one person -- sues and loses, and on appeal the court eventually goes "You still lose. But future people might win now."

It's deeply, deeply fucked. And exists nowhere in the law, SCOTUS invented it from scratch

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NYT isn’t worth reading because they are in the bag for Trump

"It's a big club. And you ain't in it."

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