Armed Polite Society

Huh. Never heard of Generation Jones before, but looks like... I'm Generation Jones. Also Gen X.

But I never liked the Banana Splits. Or HR Puffinstuff.

Looking back at HR Puffinstuff and some of their other stuff I wonder if the Krofft brothers were doing LSD at the time and what was in my cereal while watching it.

Huh. Never heard of Generation Jones before, but looks like... I'm Generation Jones. Also Gen X.

But I never liked the Banana Splits. Or HR Puffinstuff.

"In aggregate, the map of the territory Bush won was mostly the land owned by the tax-paying citizens of this great country.  Gore's territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off government welfare...."

This is a terrible take that is an obvious attempt to torture the data to tell a story he wanted to tell and his audience wants to hear and won't question.

Cities tend to vote Democrat because Republicans are specifically hostile to them and the Republican party has embraced this as a semi-official part of their non-platform, all driven by the need to collect a majority by class and cultural division.

The American economy, as it has always been and all economies have been ever in history, is dominated by cities, and the tax roles reflect this, despite mountains of policies and handouts to exurban America. Pretending that rural areas are the ones footing the bill in America is a laughably wrong take, but perfectly crafted to cater to the insecurities of their chosen base.

Land doesn't and has never voted. Electoral policy in America is already heavily federalized to benefit smaller jurisdictions and always has been; claiming that the system is tilted towards population centers is backwards, but again, it wasn't intended to be accurate or meaningful.

You know, El Salvador took care of their problem by mass incarceration of gang members.  I see a potential model for solving our problems here.