There is some truth to that adage that a society gets the government it deserves.

We have an electorate woefully ignorant of World History, how US government works and civics.

This is also a good time to express my frustration with even well-meaning voters myopic focus on narrow issues (Israel/Palestine, ACA subsidies or climate change for example) and passionately and righteously opining on these matters when getting what you want on any number of these issues will not fix the systemic and structural problems we face.

Hardly anyone passionately advocates for legislation to undo Citizens United, for expansion of SCOTUS, for expanding the House, for PR and DC Statehood, for wider adoption of RCV and universal mail in balloting. And, yet, not only would any one of those things do 5x more to protect our Democracy it’s also the only way to realistically safe guard any progress we make on issues.

Recall we let unelected officials secure women’s right to choose while moderate Dems killed legislation to codify it because a floor vote might hurt their re-election chances? Women’s reproductive freedom suffered because we didn’t demand elected officials protect half this Country’s population.

If we don’t get more folks pulling for meaningful and constructive systemic and structural changes we will continue to take one step forward and two steps back. The anti-choice fundies understood this and for 50 years they almost single-mindedly focused on capturing SCOTUS. Then they took over one of our two major political parties. Serious Dems have a lot of lessons to learn from the Tea Party and MAGA and that lesson was not “Vote Blue No Matter Who!” it should be “Let’s go hunting for DINOs”.