09-10-2020, 09:20 AM
(09-10-2020, 08:17 AM)sbarrera Wrote: I have to say, I feel like we've been holding our breaths forever waiting for the 'blue wave' of Millennial voters ushering in a a progressive redistribution of wealth. It's always just around the corner in the next election. And yet (and here I'm beating a dead horse) Sanders and Warren, the two candidates proposing exactly such a thing as wealth redistribution, have been sidelined politically. Where were all those Millennial voters during the Democratic primaries?? I know, history isn't linear, at some point the curve will bend, but I feel like this is another fantasy like the Green New Deal.
Electoral politics is a numbers game, made inherently unfair by the Constitution. Today, roughly 30% of the populace elects half the US Senate. By 2040, 70% of the US populace will live in 15 states. That means that 30% of the populace gets to elect 70% of the Senate -- and don't get me started on the Electoral College. Progress is nearly impossible until it is demanded by an overwhelming majority, and I'm not sure we're there yet. Worse, changing that at the Constitutional level requires unachievable supermajorities. Anything that rebalances the body politic endangers the privileged minority.
At some point, that changes, but when and how is a mystery.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.