People going hungry? Who’s to say? We don’t ask anymore, even as food banks report record demand.
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Edit: there is now an NYT article about this as well
So… Are there any independent watchdogs keeping track of all the damage he’s doing? So that we can reverse this asap should we somehow manage to get someone at least milquetoast back in?
Honestly, I think it would be easier to just start over. There is a lot of systemic cruft from countless generations of ingrained politics and politicians, that have been strangling the possibility of effective reform. Until massive sea changes like getting rid of First Past the Post, Electoral College, and so forth has been done, things will just keep getting crappier.