While poor Southern blacks, fully enfranchised and in full possession of their legal rights, may agree with you, they'd probably want to add something to the conversation. Or is structural poverty a "bootstrap" issue for you once the legal issues have been solved?
I do think Gay Weed is important. That we even need to have a "national discussion" about it shows how debased and archaic the political discourse is in this country. I applaud the people that have worked their ass off to drag us into the mid-20th century and honor those who're freer as a result. Congratulations on your victories, I cannot fucking wait for it to be over. What's after that?
"It's okay if a pay-to-play political system is inherently undemocratic and corrupt, as long as they have those yummy dinner rolls at the fundraiser this year."
"As long as we maintain the illusion that there are fundamental differences between the two parties, the illusion that the system isn't fundamentally corrupt remains intact."
Where's the decision that levels the playing field between those flush with corporate money and those that aren't? Challengers and incumbents?! Who gives a fuck, if they're essentially the same fucking people? Quit changing the goal posts, stop apologizing for moneyed interest monopoly over the political system and start accepting what you know is true: this system is corrupt as all get-out and Citizens United has made it worse.
There's that phase again. It "levels the playing field" for those capable of raising millions of dollars in corporate cash. Period. It's a de facto form of disenfranchisment as real as the poll tax, literacy test, or property requirement. It's just that now the candidates are pre-filtered by moneyed interests.