It opens a crack to do it again. And again and again. If it didn’t hurt them they wouldn’t fight it so hard. But I do agree we should be trying for something more comprehensive. That said, I don’t think the country is currently capable of doing something like that. We’re too broken.
Wonder how they plant/harvest. Seems like the panels would block a tractor
Can’t say I’ve experienced this myself (millennial). Maybe I’m the bad influence in my friend group? I’ve definitely turned down going to things because I couldn’t afford it. That said, when gaming at least, I tend to just buy the game for my friends as I want to play with them and don’t want them to have to worry about that cost. Games are, relatively speaking, pretty cheap so I view it comparable to paying for a night out, which is often about the same cost.
Honestly I think the more traditional side of the Democratic party serves the ‘conservative’ angle quite well. They’re the ones questioning spending and how we’ll pay for it, advocating for pro business policies and the like.
The Republican party no longer seems to bring anything of merit to the table, having fallen to Christian nationalism and policies of hate.
Dismantling ‘not great’ solutions when our legislature is seemingly incapable of replacing them with any solution at all (better or worse) is just a net downgrade for society. Our government is broken and extremely ineffective.
Seems like a decent idea. I have a pet theory that it’s not strictly that young people don’t vote, but that there is a relatively constant duration people who suddenly can vote take to learn that that is important. Kids, who can’t vote, don’t bother to think about it. And new voters tend to focus solely on the Presidential election. I think it takes roughly 8 years (two presidential elections) for people to learn that not voting has consequences. If we started kids voting earlier, we may find that they become regular voters earlier as well.
Agreed. If we just set this issue aside and focused solely on everything that contributed to making someone want to shoot up a school we’d save far more lives more quickly. I do believe that we need gun control, but like you I don’t think we’ll get it so why waste our time trying for something that will never happen?