The core voters are lost forever. Fuck them, don't think about what they're going to do.
Soggy
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The actual laws also don't seem to matter, in all fairness.
We've already pretty much given up on everything east of Leavenworth.
It's the cheapest commonly available option, of course it's not good. (We have even worse stuff but it's pretty much only seen around Easter)
The US has terrible and incredible options for pretty much everything. Beer, chocolate, beaches, whatever. It's just never the mass-marketed stuff.
Cool, is there room for one hundred million Americans in your vocational school?
There's so much more to it, but the short version is that a huge portion of this country doesn't consider atheists trustworthy or even properly "American". God is on our money, the bible is used for official government ceremony, most of our public holidays are Christian, the word holiday and tons of others are explicitly rooted in religious culture. In-n-Out has a little bible passage on their cups.
Being openly atheist is a radical position in this country, one that will limit you professionally and socially.
I would like to normalize non-belief though.
To be fair, we sorta knew it was possible because birds. I think it's more impressive when we don't know what can happen, like breaking the sound barrier or putting people in space.
I don't need ignorance to feel wonder. I think things are cooler when I can marvel at the complex mechanics behind it all.
We keep living next to rivers because reliable water is the single most important consideration. Flooding happens. Most parts of the world independently developed sun and moon worship as well, and name colors in roughly the same order.
We've been a deeply racist and violent country for longer than we've been a country. Built on genocide and slavery. We didn't properly address our failures when we had the chance (Civil War should have ended with a new constitution and drastically different political structure to keep militant bigots from gaining power) and now we have this.
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Too many M states, shoulda diversified.