General Discussion

Shared, universal suffering is a great unifier and motivator.

But I disagree about changing people’s attitudes before making changes that solve our problems.

We need only to elect a congress willing to kill the filibuster and expand the court, and a president willing to sign that court expansion into law.

Once that is done, there can be no more hiding behind “gridlock” to avoid accountability; Dems can ram through progressive bill after bill (as Whitmer did in MI in a single year with a single seat majority in the legislature), show the people the can govern effectively without fear or hesitation, and then we will see attitudes change (for reference, see FDR and the New Deal).