They have the data. It’s Amazon. The data just doesn’t say what they want it to say.

I wish Anthony Bourdain was here to see this.

My family and I donate a generous amount of our time and money across a variety of political, environmental, and philanthropic organizations.

Thank you for your generosity, for sure.

I don’t disagree. I just think everyone should do what they can. I am doing what I can. If you have the capacity to be in the streets, I genuinely applaud you. I would encourage you to continue exercising your civic rights, donating, and getting your point of view out there.

“The founders also specified a process by which the Constitution may be amended, and since its ratification, the Constitution has been amended 27 times. In order to prevent arbitrary changes, the process for making amendments is quite onerous. An amendment may be proposed by a two-thirds vote of both Houses of Congress, or, if two-thirds of the States request one, by a convention called for that purpose. The amendment must then be ratified by three-fourths of the State legislatures, or three-fourths of conventions called in each State for ratification.” - Whitehouse.gov

This is the way.

Forgive me if I’m not willing to accept an authoritative statement based on data without access to the data. But I’m not willing to take that leap.

The problem, as I see it, is we live in a flawed democracy and the path to change by definition lies with getting the most progressive candidates possible in office unimpeded by regressives. It’s the only reasonable way to get change. It will be slow, it will not always be exciting. But in the meantime, I have to put food on the table and manage my life, so taking to the streets is not a reasonable long term solution for me.

I’ll continue donating to progressive causes, voting, and arguing online. It’s the bandwidth I can spare.

I suspect we agree more than we disagree and our differences are a matter of degrees.

I agree with you. This is a progressive ideal. The way to get there is to vote for the most progressive candidates that can actually win and deliver them the Congress and Senate multiple terms so that we cannot be held back by regressives.

See you at the polls!

I quickly scanned over this after I saw the words “Decades of analysis.” [Citation needed.]

I will not be reading the rest unless I see a citation for this authoritative abstract you’ve written.

That would be nice. But we need to live our lives in reality.