Single smartest thing I think blue states could do is go on a MASSIVE home-building spree, bring down rents, and precipitate a massive multi-racial Second Great Migration.

Provide shelter for the sane and strip the lunatic states of their power in the House.

I've always loved this little phrasebook for new (Jewish) immigrants to New York. It's got Yiddish instructions on joining a union! (The right-most column is English transliterated into Yiddish).

Apparently there were alliums native to North America, so there were some wild onions to eat with the peppers. (But your point stands; you certainly couldn't have chili lime flavors.) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allium_...

Being an elected official in the United States is such a garbage job that only the worst people in the country want it. The best ones are gigantic ego maniacs, but the majority are just kinda average people who can't figure out how to gain notoriety doing anything else. It's a huge problem!