Should-be bipartisan goals:
1) vast expansion of nuclear power to combat climate change
2) prioritizing private sector job creation
3) balanced budgets
4) a social safety net which does not eradicate private sector health care
5) conservation of natural resources
@TMFOtter I think this is the usual liberalism vs postliberalism stuff that has puffed up everywhere; in this instance the former seems likely to forever win the majority of Americans, and latter seems to have won a big chunk of Australia since COVID.
@conorsen@NateSilver538 For all of the practical obstacles, the nonstop chatter about involving SEC and Big10 venues the next time around could end up uncorking a truly astounding spectacle and a damn good time.
@conorsen This sprawling, kickass country with its numerous climates, wildly different cities and jewel stadiums, is the perfect place for the world to wander around for a long month. It’s not politically possible, but we should host this thing every four years.
@conorsen I actually think the answer here is the ascendancy of SEC/sun belt culture. It’s been a political wagon since that generation came of age, and youth is one of its chief characteristics.
@MaceMoneta@jjkaplowitz Fear mongering about nuclear waste is the science equivalent of being an anti-vaxxer. All of the country’s nuclear waste could fit in a facility the size of one football stadium. As opposed to solar panels in landfills poisoning groundwater everywhere.
@anniodarone3 The other true “need to bounce” mood hits about three years into your first long term job after training. The brain by that point has been programmed to look toward the next move.
@AngelicaOung@JohnSchoffstall Angelica, come on. The non-agenda question is, is American political authority illegitimate? And the answer is, No, but it is permanently tenuous. Because democracy.