Having spend many years working in NC, I can't emphasize this point enough. Don't abandon the people who didn't ask for this stuff. Between gerrymandering and other forms of voter disenfranchisement, their voices aren't being heard. And they don't deserve what's happening at the state level.
3. Nearly 60% of TX's pop is BIPOC, and new pop growth in TX is basically a 10:1 BIPOC to white ratio. So before you fire up your "let them go" hot takes, consider that you'd be advocating for the abandonment of a lot of folks (many disfranchised or inadequately represented) who hate this shit too
(read your skeet to imply politics *are* about punishing people for having something, like a view, things, or morality; but that politics*shouldn't be*)
The way many liberals talk about "red states" implies that Republicans deserve to suffer (and everyone in those states is a Republican). Not that they need to see how their policies work out in practice so they can learn -- they deserve to be punished.
Agree completely. On the issue of Medicaid expansion alone, thousands of people died or had little access to care. Most of those people were poor and living in rural area without a nearby hospital. Nobody deserves that.
Then I read you correctly.
I would want to add that Republicans, too, want others to suffer, presumably to teach them a lesson.
But they want different people to suffer, and for different reasons.
Right, in general I think it's hard to run a society and specifically a democracy when everyone believes the main purpose of politics is to punish others.
