I appreciate your sentiment, but I think you fall into the very trap that leads to the current state of the world. I'm not one to promote doom and gloom, but w

I appreciate your sentiment, but I think you fall into the very trap that leads to the current state of the world. I'm not one to promote doom and gloom, but we have to face reality and acknowledge the circumstances we find ourselves in. They are a bit doomy and a bit gloomy. I acknowledge that any action can have unintended consequences, but inaction and repetitive action will only lead to the same outcomes. The outcome I hope for is this: people will be forced to face the consequence of their political decisions. They will no longer be able to hide behind the complexity of the world. Right now a conservative can look at his state or the U.S. at large and blame any flaw on liberal ideology. "Things wouldn't be so bad if we could just control the liberals." "Things wouldn't be, so bad if my vote actually counted for something." The same is true for Liberals. You could argue that these people should educate themselves and be active participants in democracy, but "should" doesn't count for much; and their perception is not entirely unreasonable. To reiterate, your suggestions is to save them from themselves. They don't know any better--we have to bring them "dignified lives." Is it so hard to understand why people would take increasingly inflexible positions when on the opposite end of their desire, stands someone like you with such a holier-than-thou mindset? As an alternative to your suggestion, I wonder this: If you vote for a conservative, and 90% of the people around you vote for a conservative, and your mayor is conservative, and that mayor implements conservative policies, and you find that your life still isn't improving. Who do you have to blame now? You can't save people that don't want to be saved, and sometimes you can't save people that do want to be saved. Sometimes there is no value in trying because the results of a given sequence of actions create a foregone conclusion. I listen to conservative politicians talking about outlawing leaving a state to get an abortion. People freaked out over this joke of a coup (from an organizational standpoint) that happened not long ago, but you're not freaked out by this Orwellian garbage? With this at the forefront, I'd rather have small nodes of madness and sanity and give everyone a more realistic chance of reaching their idea of a sane space, than have state wide nodes of insanity for the vast majority of the country.