People care when their drinking water is contaminated with lead. They care if their medicines aren’t safe and effective, or if somebody takes all the money out of their investment accounts. Those things don’t make people happy. Yet it’s administrative agencies that are guarding against that and protecting their rights. So when the Supreme Court starts to dismantle important features of these agencies, it matters because it’s destabilizing a really important part of government

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    5 months ago

    The primaries were decided mathematically before my state got a chance to vote. My primary vote didn’t matter this year and this isn’t the first time this has happened. Downballot all the usual suspects won as well since turnout is always lower when this happens.