Will Stancilさんのイラストまとめ

I think a lot about this Matt Bors cartoon. People forget today, but as recently as 2016 trans issues were so uncontroversial that even left-wing writers treated it as obvious that the new Trump right would leave them alone. We’re backsliding and often we don’t even realize it.

Somehow I never noticed before today, but my long-standing frustration with Democrats' poll-driven politics is maybe best explained by Plato's cave.

Surprising that a 2400-year old philosophical puzzle captures the basic mechanism of modern politics so well, but it does.

How it started How it's going

To give you a sense of the problem, the first map is all the counties richer than Los Angeles County. The second map is all the counties richer than the Florence neighborhood of South LA.