First DEI

[crazed_hoosier2]

I wonder if returning admin back to the states would help remove money out of politics? At least a little. Lobbyists and funding would then have to be more directed to each state versus DC.

The expansive view of the Commerce Clause taken by the courts during the Great Depression has been one of the most (negatively, IMO) transformative events in US history.

The federal government we have today is the product of that shift.

 

[The Original Happy Goat]

The expansive view of the Commerce Clause taken by the courts during the Great Depression has been one of the most (negatively, IMO) transformative events in US history.

The federal government we have today is the product of that shift.

Good point. I actually thought about editing my post and having three causes instead of two; that would have been the third.

 

[The Original Happy Goat]

Well, is that not the crux of disagreement between the left and right? The federal administrative state has become too big and taken too much day to day governance from the states? Seems like this admin is looking to reverse that imbalance. Not sure the US needs to eliminate equal suffrage in the Senate, as you suggested.

Among the populist wings, maybe, but I think the elites in both parties accept the current state of things, and would never choose to go back to a confederation-style state-dominated nation.

 

[Joe_Hoopsier]

I reckon

Using this type comment, unless used in the flow of the system, is simple cultural appropriation. Either, do it right and change your identity on the next census, buy a truck, jack it up, remove the exhaust, GET IT MUDDY ! or STFU ! RNLM ! (and we open (mostly)carry).

 

[The Original Happy Goat]

Using this type comment, unless used in the flow of the system, is simple cultural appropriation. Either, do it right and change your identity on the next census, buy a truck, jack it up, remove the exhaust, GET IT MUDDY ! or STFU ! RNLM ! (and we open (mostly)carry).

Did I screw up by spelling it correctly?

 

[Joe_Hoopsier]

Did I screw up by spelling it correctly?

Ok you are out, denied, refused. You are a rebel flag bumper sticker on a Prius to us.

 

[The Original Happy Goat]

Ok you are out, denied, refused. You are a rebel flag bumper sticker on a Prius to us.

The South shall experience anew a marked improvement in their acclivity!

Edit: @BradStevens I meant this as a joke, but it's not lost on me that Orwell would hate it.

 

[BradStevens]

To some extent, I agree. But I also think the value of money in politics is overrated - or at least it has diminishing marginal utility.

Harris spent more than double what Trump spent. And other very well-funded candidates have gone nowhere. Jeb Bush, Michael Bloomberg, Giuliani.

A candidate needs to be sufficiently funded. That much is true. But piling more on top of that doesn’t do them much good.

Money influences the system a lot more than just in campaign donations.

 

[Joe_Hoopsier]

The South shall experience anew a marked improvement in their acclivity!

Edit: @BradStevens I meant this as a joke, but it's not lost on me that Orwell would hate it.

You need to remove that black tape hiding the battery warning light on the dash of your prius, Jonny 5 almost dead. You racist !