Federalize their national guard, then.
They're misusing military resources for political maneuvers. If the supreme Court does not order them to stand down, or if they refuse such an order, then it will be a necessity.
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Because they know a lot of people agree with them on individual policy ideas, but if they claim/accept that label in particular, it will alienate the low information people they target.
English only education
Immigration quotas
Policing policy and methods
Incarceration
Tons of other things
All of these have racial implications, and a huge swath of "middle America" will buy into specific stances. Their MO is to get them agreeing on anything, and then gradually ramp up the rhetoric to get them to more extreme views.
As a normal looking white guy, it is shocking the number of times people will say borderline racist things to feel you out. Depending on your immediate response, they will either cloak themselves in whatever plausible deniability they built into their initial comment and stop talking to you, or they'll continue with gradual escalation until you match them, at which point they know they've found a kindred spirit.
This is a very nuanced issue, and I won't be able to explain my thoughts without someone whatabouting it.
And while you're right, it is absolutely insane that we blame individuals for the exploitive nature of society.
Kids are expensive because businesses realized they could charge whatever for everything and then run ad campaigns about how bad of a parent you are for not buying their product or service. Simultaneously cutting every public, infrastructural component that used to support parents.
I apologize if you're being sarcastic, but this is the point. We need cars because we designed our cities around cars.
If we designed around foot traffic and rail, we wouldn't need (as many) cars and could do with less expensive car-centric infrastructure. Not just interstate exchanges, but also the massive parking lots and garages that are required, gas stations and car repair/oil change places on every corner, etc.
I thought the same way as you until recently.
A lot of times when we fly, we have to rent a car anyway. Once that's factored in, driving often winds up being cheaper.
Did a ten hour drive recently. Gas for the whole trip wound up at about $300, including driving around up there. Which is close to what we paid for a car last time we had to rent, plus the gas for the rental.
In this scenario, it's less about the damage you can do to the company and more about the damage you avoid doing to yourself.
Integrity is something only you can define for yourself. If you're fine with it, do what you want and live with the consequences (or lack thereof).
To your example, I don't eat Chick-fil-A, and I don't shop at hobby lobby. There's something to be said for "there's no ethical consumption under capitalism" but those two companies in particular, I find repulsive, even though they remain incredibly popular. I know my boycott doesn't impact them, nor does it stop anyone else from supporting them, but I feel dirty when I shop there, so I do not.
Wonderful in theory, but in practice it's a dumpster fire. Quick, mainstreamm-acceptable takes are incentived, and nuanced, alternative viewpoints are nearly impossible.
If it were all for hobby stuff, it would be fine, but when this is how most people get their news, it's not good.
The reason we haven't had a redo of the French revolution, despite having a more fucked up tax system and higher economic disparities, is because the massively rich wised up. They don't go in public very much.
Private parties, private clubs, etc. if they do anything in public, it's a minimum of several hundred dollars per person so that normies can't afford to even look that direction.
What does his glabella have to do with anything?
This. Democrats sometimes fuck up, but we have processes in place to mitigate those fuckups, and Democrats generally engage with those processes.
Trump, on the other hand, lied, obfuscated, and seemed to purposefully make it as bad as feasible.
They've already got a better system than Hitler could have every hoped for: normal prison.
The US has the largest prison population per capita, plus migrant holding facilities, plus juvenile holding facilities.
All they need to do is capture the presidency and keep at least one chamber of Congress, and they can just expand the existing laws to target their enemies. The facilities are already in operation, they just need an excuse to grab the people they don't like.
Most arguments about wait time are conflating two issues: how long from when you check in to when you see the doctor, and how long between when you try to make an appointment and the date of that appointment.
The US system is not terrible for wait times on appointments, and depending on your type of insurance it's not terrible to see a specialist. But there are some niche practices that are horrible wait times, such as endocrinologists.
The US system "solves" the office wait time issue by dinging doctors for spending more than 7 minutes per patient.