• deweydecibel@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Within the next decade or two, there should be enough of a shift to the left with Zoomers that Democrats have enough states and enough popularity to fix the Constitution without Republicans fucking it up.

    Only if two things have not happened by this point:

    1. Republicans have not fucked the system up so bad and broken all the safeguards to effectively render our democracy permanently dysfunctional without their approval.

    2. The trend of educated young people congregating in the same large population states stops.

    We are already the majority. We should not be struggling this much to get very basic things done. The problem isn’t getting enough people to get this shit done, it’s getting enough people in enough districts in enough states to get it done.

    This system is so utterly broken that fixing it may not be possible given the current trends. The structure of Congress was not designed for 50 states and all the educated people fleeing the majority of them to congregate in a few of them. You want to talk about tyranny of the majority, how about we start talking about tyranny of the fucking zip code. What we frankly need is a democracy that forgets about borders and starts caring about what people want, not land.

    Let’s also keep in mind Zoomers will need help from the generation that comes after them, and at this point, it’s safe to say a fair number of those kids will have been indoctrinated into Republican ideology by the gutted school systems, conservative censorship, and rampant, uncheck right wing propaganda being funneled into their brains. Make no mistake: Republicans are playing a long game in many of these states, and the next generation is in very big trouble.