I once assumed that small incremental environmentally conscious steps in how people lived, worked, and played were inevitable. I'm talking smaller, more energy efficient, and safer vehicles, vegetable protein substitutes in place of industrialized meat products becoming generally accepted and even the norm, and I even had naive presumptions about some imminent expansion of mass transportation because it simply made more economic sense.
But that was all before I learned the power of
I remember smugly declaring (during the GW Bush years) that Texas will inevitably go blue within 20 years due to demographic trends.
Remember when Ohio and Florida were "battleground/swing" states?
Tbf population wise it has, they really ramped up voter suppression though