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I am so over this completely dominant and unchallenged lie. Finances 👏 aren't 👏 responsible👏 for 👏 the 👏 fertility 👏 crisis 👏. That's why, even in countries (Denmark) with extremely generous social support, including state-sponsored IVF, the fertility rate is still pitiful. Some of the fertility decline is because teenagers aren't having as many kids anymore. That's great. But another category of affluent, mature couples — across Western affluent countries — are CHOOSING "double income no kids" (DINK) lifestyles. Or believing the lie that they can wait until their late 30s, come to find out, after failed fertility treatments wreck their marriage and their savings, that it's too late. You don't have to blame individuals and their individual choices to see that the pattern *itself* is symptomatic of sad, damaging, individualistic, striver-y cultural rot.

[Deleted a comment I made last night about the advisability of govt paying high salaries for certain jobs to workers who would not be able to get anywhere near those salaries anywhere else. There are circumstances where the value of having a good person in a specific seat generates so much value for an org that it's worth paying a lot more than he/she could get in any other seat. So, I think the comment was unfair.]

The hardest part about redistricting reform (to the extent the public has an appetite for it) is in 2029 or whenever you’d need a dozen Dems in California and a dozen Republicans in Texas to vote to eliminate their own seats, seems challenging.

Even if it’s not a wave, like in 2022, the hope of one plus red state census gains would likely make the already minimal window for bipartisan gerrymander ban nonexistent. And not too early to think about this! I covered 2020 maps in 2014.

No. I support gerrymandering when my side does it, and I oppose it when Democrats do it because Democrats are my enemy and I want them to lose everywhere. The Democratic Party masquerades as a legitimate political party while functioning as an illegitimate tool for foreigners, criminals, and their managerial handlers to sack and pillage this country at the expense of the American people. The appropriate number of Democratic seats at all levels of government is zero. The party itself should be banned, and at least half of its elected officials should be in prison.

It's still just completely insane that Democrats were allowed to write a ballot question that says "restore fairness" and have the result create this lobster-like monstrosity of a congressional district.

Make this affordable again.