Definitely a sign of a healthy political culture when your apartment building is preparing for Election Day by hiring security and pre-arranging a vendor to repair broken windows.
Oregon has a ballot measure to legalize therapeutic psilocybin, but it will take two years to go into effect. They should have added a provision to make it effective immediately in the event of a Trump victory.
My position as a libertarian is that if Trump wins I might throw a rock through my own window, but throwing rocks through other people& #39;s windows is bad.
Since this thread is making its way around right-wing Twitter right now, I& #39;ll add that in addition to being terrible on his own merits, no one has done more than Trump to accelerate the appeal of the illiberal left. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/hate-wokeness-vote-biden/616845/">https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/arc...
A Biden victory isn& #39;t a cure for what ails the left or the right, but it& #39;s a necessary first step toward getting back to a more normal, less polarized politics. A second Trump term will likely just foment even more extremism. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/left-and-right-are-radicalizing-each-other/616914/">https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/arc...
As I wrote earlier, "a vote for Biden is not a vote for the particular policies he may pursue, many of which will surely be unlibertarian and ill-advised. It’s a vote to preserve the institutions that make liberal democracy and normal politics possible." https://arcdigital.media/a-pox-on-one-of-their-houses-9997b9d6891e?source=friends_link&sk=4f866a8e654413303cd2996b5729f5ed">https://arcdigital.media/a-pox-on-...
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