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                                             February 18, 2021


  If I were to fantasize about a solution, my
  solution would be to create an American
  public that was capable of critical thinking
  and evaluating sources of information so that
  the government would not need to play speech
  cop.  Like I said, I'm fantasizing.



  It is however, worth remembering that
  while the situation in the US is quite bad,
  it's odd political structure makes the         Dump the filibuster--
  problem feel worse than it is--                after finding some way
                                                 to threaten or bribe the
  In a simple majority-rules democracy,          holdouts-- make DC and
  someone like he-who-shall-not-be-named         Puerto Rico states and
  would never have been elected to the           pass some electoral
  presidency, and his fans would be an           reform bills, and the
  interesting oddity on the American scene       United States would
  that no one would feel the need to take        suddenly be a much
  seriously.                                     different place.

                                                 Electoral reform: bye bye
                                                 e-voting, hello paper
                                                 trail; hello weekend
                                                 elections; hello automatic
                                                 voter registration...



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