Well off working man warns the capitalist class the consequences of stiffing the working class.

We will see if the guardrails hold again.

All the good will in the world would collapse before the mathematical reality of single member districts.

Ranked choice voting can be done without amendments, and it might move the needle, but a true multiparty system cannot survive single member districts for representation.

Canada and Britain both have single member districts and functionally 2 party systems. Britain is in flux right now due to the collapse of the conservatives and Labor, but they will shake out with a 2 horse race just like Canada does.

Courts need to start having a plan B for when the legislature refuses to play ball. "Submit the new maps for review or the election happens with the maps from 1999!

States are not involved with collecting income taxes generally.

They could refuse to collect income tax from state employees, but that’s only a few billion if all blue states did it.

There is no hate quite like Christian love.

I said “I want” not “I think it’s gonna happen.” A Nixon situation is the absolute best we can reasonably expect. They didn’t prosecute the criminals from Nixon, or Reagan, or Bush, so I’m not hopeful.

Nothing is certain.

The great recession didn’t touch it. Covid didn’t touch it. Jan 6 didn’t touch it.

Ending the two party system would require changing the way national elections work. That would require a constitutional amendment.

That would require one party taking full control of Congress and more importantly 2 thirds of state legislatures. The most plausible path to that I see currently is trump taking his coup to the next level, interfering in elections nationwide and placing maga in control all over the country.

Then they start passing constitutional amendments changing what it means to be a citizen and who can vote.

“Wait, not like that” you are probably thinking.

That’s why I think there would have to be mass death. The pandemic is probably the next most likely, Democrats seek safety in distance and Republicans cheerfully host parties and deny the threat. The administration blocks efforts by the CDC and other researchers to study the disease. but it’s somehow both deadlier than covid and slower, so by the time hospitals and morgues fill up, way more people are infected than with covid. 120 million Americans die before the crisis stabilizes, 2 thirds of them right leaning and one 3rd left leaning or apolitical.

The next election sweeps democrats into power nationwide, a 50 point swing as so many more right leaning voters have passed and the living turn on the party that refused to address the crisis.

That scenario makes constitutional amendments possible. Maybe not plausible though, they would be rushing to address the crisis, the mass graves, the shattered economy. If the plague somehow hit the billionaire class hard, maybe then.

Things get less likely from there. The US arbitrarily declaring war on the rest of the world, alien invasion, etc.

All I want from a new administration is to prosecute the criminals from this one.

Correction, that person is calling on Americans to commit suicide by cop.

Enough people willing to do it at the same time and it would work. But the death toll would be higher than 9 11. Probably higher than Vietnam. I guess less than world war 1 for America.

Yes, most of us can’t be Chris Dorner, and it didn’t work out well for him.

Getting rid of the 2 party system would require a crisis of such magnitude I cannot in good conscience wish for it.

Losing world war 3. A pandemic 10X deadlier than covid, hostile Aliens, something at that level.

Nothing less will do it.

Both is possible.

How much you are willing to risk is a personal choice.

Get to know your neighbors, get back in touch with friends and family that you know are sympathetic. Give your time and effort to groups in your area that are resisting, whether legally, physically, or however that looks to you.

Starting the French underground is a big lift, but the French underground did not spring fully formed out of nothing. You have to find ways you can help.

People knew they weren’t coming back from those trains.

They didn’t know exactly how they were going to die, but they knew they wern’t going to live on a farm somewhere. They just didn’t ask questions because that could get you on the next train.

People hid and smuggled and lied for their friends and in-laws. You don’t take that risk from ignorance.

The mind recoils from such a happy vision of the future.

That won’t save you, but if ICE is crashing through your door, you probably aren’t making it anyway.

The destruction of our healthcare infrastructure will accelerate this.

My expectations could not be lower. I’ll be eatatic if nobody has tried to put me in a camp by 2035.