I’ll be dead in the cold, cold ground before I recognize Missouri, Idaho, South Dakota, Alaska, Rhode Island, Hawai’i, Utah, Indiana, Florida, or Maine!
Of course. I’m probably not the only one who thinks you like adding people to lists. Blaming your woes on the Others and treating them differently based on a mark they carry were just two of the clues.
What I’ll never be able to understand is why people seem to think that stuff like this is going to convince anybody to change their views on… well, anything, really.
All of this stuff is stuff that we’ve heard repeated ad nauseam in school, in educational video cassette children’s cartoons, in political commentary on TV and in print editorials, in public speeches by government officials, in conversations with people we know, and so forth. Belief in the separation of powers and checks-and-balances being effective as implemented in a liberal democracy, is such an ingrained part of mainstream understanding of politics literally since early childhood, that anyone who believes to the contrary must necessarily already be familiar with the arguments for it, and have rejected them.
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