re: #158 Mattand

So the question becomes how do we fix it?

The immediate answer is voting out the obstructionists, I guess. The problem is what do you do when nearly half of the country is as bat shit as the conservatives they elect?

I know I’m a broken record, but look at the conservatives here who vote GOP. They seem to be rational people, but they’re throwing in their lot with a party that is actively appealing to religious fanatics, racists, and paranoids.

How do you fix a problem when the “moderates” are perfectly willing to support people this radical?

How we do it is very, very, very hard: We have to prosecute the religions that evade taxation while preaching politics, which alone is going to be a an insane fight, and we’re going to have to communicate the reality of economics, we have to teach the “You didn’t build that” message in a way that can actually get through. I think it’s possible, but it’s going to be really freaking hard.

Until we can get that, it’s just a desperate get out the vote attempt, every election.