IMO the biggest problem is that ruralites/suburbanites downright refuse to give (sexual, racial, *ial) minorities civil rights+appropriate protection unless they're forced to by the 'tyranny' of the majority. Cali to-date is the only state to ban LGBT panic defences; kinda scary
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(*Disclaimer; fully. Illinois and Rhode Island have implemented partial bans.)
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So... you’re a single-issue voter? Or is that just a sort of indicator issue of broader opposition?
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It's the biggest problem IMO; and it encompasses a *lot* of problems. "Hi can we have rights pls and not give people free passes for killing us ty" can sum up a lot of human suffering right now. (cont:)
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And I'm commenting on the reason I think that having something that's effectively a New Ruling Class of voters is kinda messed up in practice; beyond political philosophy of "Local Govt. vs Big Govt." Of course that's important, but pragmatics+outcomes are important, too.
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I'm absolutely not a single-issue voter, though. (If I was, I'd vote Conservative every time for something I find urgent but that doesn't outweigh the lump sum of everything else.)
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Hmm. Sounds like What’s the Matter with Kansas theory https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_the_Matter_with_Kansas%3F …
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I think that Kansas's shift is pretty simple to figure out. Opportunity stopped being in Kansas. The intelligent people went to where opportunity was. Westboro-types and uneducated-types stayed in Kansas. Kansas is left with the remainder.
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I will have to read that book though, so thank you!
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He called 2016 in 2004. Pretty impressive.https://www.vox.com/mischiefs-of-faction/2016/12/1/13807382/thomas-frank-kansas-2016-election …
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i'm not so much impressed by the accuracy as depressed that in 12 years things only got worse
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