@bradybuzz If you really want to decrease gun deaths, support improved mental health care in low density states with high suicide rates, and interdiction of illegal guns into high crime neighborhoods. Murder and suicide account for the vast majority of firearm fatalities.
@nyer2k @BrentAWilliams2 It would take concerted effort on the part of frontline medical staff, to convince lawmakers and the public, that HC money is best spent on frontline staff and services. But it could be done...
@ZaidJilani Welfare state is a othe way of saying "taker state": one that refuses to tax itself, but is happy to take federal money, almost all of which comes from Blue state taxes.
@zriboua Both Aristotle (in his Politics) and Ortega y Gasset (in Revolt of the Masses) foresaw the problem of people assuming that their own personal frameworks could be applied to governance .
@HistoryBoomer Gonna do the broken record thing here: anyone who is a DSA Socialist should not be able to run as a Democrat. It's the only way to prevent these types from winning and the Dems to regain legitimacy.