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I think that we will adapt and Congress just needs to adjust to a hostile Supreme Court and legislate more. People need to vote.



Yeah, they're ahead of you on that one. Already zapped the Voting Rights Act and ruled that gerrymandering is legal. They're pretty competent at setting up the doom loop for Democracy - that and cutting taxes for the wealthy.


Adapt and overcome. I'm against panic and FUD.


You know, it occurs to me that pessimism is pretty inherently toxic, but not always wrong, but optimism can have the same quality.


I do what I can. I donate to principled and pragmatic political campaigns, I vote, and I encourage others to do the same. I've just heard too much doom and gloom that never turns out as bad in practice as I've been led to believe. c'est la vie. One must cultivate one's own garden.


I mean, I see the inflation now, I've lived through a climate disaster already (and quite the opposite of what I expected from global warming). I see the financial meltdown, the accelerating costs of living such that most people in my generation are actually poorer (and less healthy) than Boomers or Gen Xers. Also the president nearly had his vice president hanged by a crowd he whipped up. That last one might have had some entertainment value at least, but seems like it came pretty close to gloom and doom, no? Oh yeah, and the plague that apparently wasn't too bad because it only kills your grandparents and apparently they've had their time. And then the rich conservatives trot out their apparatchiks to tell you that actually you're just a sourpuss because your phone is too entertaining and your TV is too big and that's the most condescending part of it all I think. So yeah, not much of an optimist here I suppose.


You think that the court is principled? You think that will work?

A subsidiary of the "just world" hypothesis is what they call in Russia the "just tsar" theory. The theory that the final legal authority, the tsar, is reasonable. He just doesn't know what all his bloodsucking boyars and rampaging Cossacks are doing.




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