Too much reflection & waxing introspection. Why aren't people more upset about:
- superdelagates
- House district gerrymandering
- winner-take-all electoral votes
- voter ID laws
- polling place hours
- local election commissions
- the primary process
- superPACs
- statehood for DC and Puerto Rico
These are issues in need of fixing that should be driven on all cylinders, no waiting, no letting up. When do we make _that_ a priority?
- superdelagates
- House district gerrymandering
- winner-take-all electoral votes
- voter ID laws
- polling place hours
- local election commissions
- the primary process
- superPACs
- statehood for DC and Puerto Rico
These are issues in need of fixing that should be driven on all cylinders, no waiting, no letting up. When do we make _that_ a priority?
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You're expecting an extremely high level of civic comprehension that truly doesn't exist in the US population anymore. That's part of what really freaks me out at times working with the public at my employing agency. Citizens should not be coming to me as groveling supplicants but yet they do far too frequently.
We have a populace that is disarmed intellectually in too many ways. Until we can overcome that you're essentially engaging in the discussion of minutia and esoterica. That's not a hopeful situation.
I don't mean the population in general; I mean the people writing articles and such (and to a large extent, the techno-nerds that I hang with, who on the whole analyze everything in detail). And also party officials, I guess.