[grecy]

> Just legalize it..

It feels like the US needs to just make some really basic decisions that would vastly improve the quality of life for hundreds of millions of it's citizens so it can get on with actual important stuff.

Legalize weed. Legalize abortion. Fix the severely broken healthcare system. Make education affordable.

Bring the quality of life up to par with other OECD countries, then start actually making stuff better - renewable power, cheap and good public transit, fix crumbling infrastructure.

So many arguments about petty stuff that should have just been decided and moved on from two decades ago.

[mistermann]

Marijuana could even catalyze such initiatives, especially if used strategically. Strategic cultural initiatives aren't exactly our thing here in the west (at the public level anyways), but marijuana could also catalyze changing that!

[psd1]

Yes. Or: keep the two-party system, which degrades debate to a zero-sum game.

[throwaway7ahgb]

So which state that is primarily controlled by one party have all these things?

Hint: None, because it's not as easy as a party system. Not all voters agree on these issues.

[amanaplanacanal]

Plenty of states have legal weed and abortion, but certainly not the rest. Health care is broken at the federal level, and I don’t think individual states could fix it even if they wanted to.

[grecy]

I thought Bernie put a pretty good system in Vermont?

[RiverCrochet]

> It feels like the US needs to just make some really basic decisions that would vastly improve the quality of life for hundreds of millions of it's citizens

It already did. If you are of the citizens that have hundreds of millions, you have a quality life.