re: #390 EPR-radar
I really think it’s telling that the 2-party system in the US only seems to function as a normal political system when the parties agree on how badly blacks and other minorities should be screwed over.
Ever since the civil rights realignment, the US has been ungovernable because the GOP is the party of racists and the Democrats aren’t (finally).
Reminder: the reason we were able to get Social Security and Medicare is because FDR cut a deal with the southern democrats that farmworkers and domestic staff were specifically excluded. So… 3/4 of black people.