I find it interesting, in a psychotic sort of way, that nobody anywhere seems to be discussing how to solve the problem of GOP takeover. The Dims just say “vote for us more, give us more money” without mentioning that with gerrymandering it doesn’t matter because the net result is predetermined.
Back in the day some of us the number varied a bit day by day had a little game we played to see who would buy lunch. We’d hold between zero and three coins in our hands and then try to guess the total number of coins. I noticed that the guy from DC won disproportionately, but it took me forever to figure out how: he wasn’t trying to “read minds” the way the rest of us were, he was just looking at the odds, and calling that.
There was some excuse for me taking so long to figure it out because I’m so hopeless with numbers, but the others didn’t have that problem. They should have been calling the odds too, but they weren’t.
The only explanation I could imagine was that everyone but the DC guy was being captivated by the idea of “guessing the total” as though there were something arbitrary about it, rather than it being a simple function of coins x players.
Could the same kind of problem be causing the general unwillingness to think about saving what little democracy we have left? It’s we who will suffer, not the ones running the casino and rigging the games. So why are we ignoring what’s happening?
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I find it interesting, in a psychotic sort of way, that nobody anywhere seems to be discussing how to solve the problem of GOP takeover. The Dims just say “vote for us more, give us more money” without mentioning that with gerrymandering it doesn’t matter because the net result is predetermined.
Back in the day some of us the number varied a bit day by day had a little game we played to see who would buy lunch. We’d hold between zero and three coins in our hands and then try to guess the total number of coins. I noticed that the guy from DC won disproportionately, but it took me forever to figure out how: he wasn’t trying to “read minds” the way the rest of us were, he was just looking at the odds, and calling that.
There was some excuse for me taking so long to figure it out because I’m so hopeless with numbers, but the others didn’t have that problem. They should have been calling the odds too, but they weren’t.
The only explanation I could imagine was that everyone but the DC guy was being captivated by the idea of “guessing the total” as though there were something arbitrary about it, rather than it being a simple function of coins x players.
Could the same kind of problem be causing the general unwillingness to think about saving what little democracy we have left? It’s we who will suffer, not the ones running the casino and rigging the games. So why are we ignoring what’s happening?