Wonder what life in Originalist America will be like? If they try to make me wear a powdered wig, I’m out.
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I’m sort of foggy on this. So effectively you don’t need to bother with Presidential elections at all, and Congress elections will be permanently gerrymandered by incumbent party at the time the independent legislature theory kicks in. House and Senate freeze composition?
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But since Congress and potus would still have real power, federal laws all snap sharply to GOP agenda, like federal abortion ban, and scotus backstops it all. Then what happens? Blue states assert state rights and…?
I used to not bother thinking through scenarios > 3-sigma
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This is weird. I feel like I’m missing some obvious angle.
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Octavia Butler's Earthseed duology is where I start.
Micro-totalitarian respectability politics.
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