So you made me look up Corey Robin because I had never heard of him before. Here's what I found:

He believes the constitution is a detriment and should be 'eroded' for the sake of democracy.

Democracy is nothing more than mob rule. Is the American style of government perfect? No. Is it better than direct democracy? Yes. Tyranny of the majority is a very real thing. A republic protects against it. Can a republic still be subverted? Yes.

If Corey and the people who think like him are successful, you will some day find yourself at the mercy of the mob, with no protections for your minority opinion. The brave new world Corey is advocating for, is not one I want to live in. There is no utopia and as long as people are involved there will never be one. People are not of one singular mind. To achieve his utopia, people who think like Corey will have to commit acts of violence to keep people with differing opinions in line or outright eliminate them. We've already seen calls for the 're-education' of Trump supporters. Really? Are we that far gone that our political opponents and their followers should be incarcerated because their opinions differ from ours?

Ironically, people like Corey Robins can only exist in a free society. I find it confusing that they continue to call for the abolition of freedom in the name of equity. There will never be equity, but there can be freedom. People can have the ability to control their own destinies. Will all outcomes be equal? No. Taking away freedom does not guarantee equity, it only make slaves.

The republic should protect freedom, not inhibit it. We have a right to speak our minds. We have a right to peaceably assemble. If you believe that some people should not be allowed to speak their minds, if you believe that some people should not be allowed to peaceably assemble, then you are pro-tyranny. I seriously hope Corey, and the people who think like him, don't get what they want. If they do, everyone will suffer for generations.

You've just described what the police are doing when they are the first to use violence.

And when the police are not the first? The last few months have demonstrated that the police have actually shown a lot of restraint. Had the protests actually been peaceful, meaningful change could have happened. Most of the country was behind it. BLM and Antifa are using tragedy to push their agenda. They are perpetrating violence and calling it 'protest;' burning down buildings, launching mortars with intent to maim or kill, assaulting innocent people, these are not the actions of peace. When I watch white, 'allies', use vile language against black police officers it does not endear them or their cause to me. They have destroyed any hope of meaningful change. They are the very thing they claim to be fighting against.

These protesters should ask themselves something: "Would the KKK be happy with what I'm doing?"

If the answer is 'yes', what you are doing is probably wrong.

Then you are no longer peaceful and have just given the police justification. You have proven to the public that the rhetoric about you is correct and you have lost their sympathy. You have become the thing you say you are against; a lawless thug.

MLK knew this and the protests he organized behaved in a way to show they were better than those they were protesting.

BLM and Antifa aren't interested in changing the course of society. They literally want to overthrow the current regime and install themselves as the new overlords. They are neo-fascists and should be resisted. The American political system isn't perfect, but what BLM and Antifa want have been proven time and again to cause more suffering, not less. But those LARPing as revolutionaries clearly can't be bothered to review history, let alone learn from it.

BTW, I'm aware of what ANTIFA is short for. I don't care what you call yourself, if you beat up the weak and attack anyone who doesn't agree with you, you are a fascist and should be resisted. If the only way for your ideas to flourish is to beat down your opponents with force, you are the fascist.

Like most leftists, he's fine with using Stalin's Dream as long as it's invading your life and not his

It is 2018. We now have to justify "illegitimate" protocols. "Illegitimate" because they work better, take so much less electricity, and are utterly democratic. Because the tiny book, movie, music, and TV industries didn't like it.
We nuked the protocol because it worked too well and it couldn't be easily surveilled.
We are idiots led by liars.

Canada has as many volunteers as they need. The have opposing sides witness the count. No mistakes get made with that many jealous eyes locking their lasers on that counter.

Somehow Canada manages a manual pencil-check paper ballot They have counters from opposing sides witness the manual count. Works fine and is done very quickly, and it can be recounted at any time. No way to cheat. No electrons necessary. If you suspect one side has figured a way to infiltrate both witnessses, increase the number of counters. No limit on the number of eagle eyed buggers that can watch.

And addressing the 2000 fiasco, that was one party intentionally sandbagging the audit, dragging it out so that the Supreme Court could find a way to kill the recount. Hanging chads weren't the problem. It was hanging Republicans challenging everything and anything - there was no penalty for false challenges.

Simple regulation is all that is needed, and what we can't get.

It was the free market at work in Adam Smith's time as well, as he observed. A free market always leads to emergent or direct collusion to fix prices as high as they can be. Applecart economics doesn't work at a macro level. The market is a pack of ruthless buggers who will steal your teeth when you're sleeping. This is why we have regulations, or we used to.

I'd worry more about the voting machine company, but yep, this lets the locals the votes. Whoever knows the passwords can sell the passwords. Or give them away to get their candidate elected.

There've been a lot of weird and close elections in the last 17 years. Far too many.

Chicago now offers a Chicago ID card for just this purpose. The right wingers oppose it: guess why.

I TOLD YOU SO GOD DAMN IT.

Why would you assume they wouldn't install a backdoor? WHY??? Changing election totals gave them trillions of dollars in tax cuts and complete power.
Don't talk about open-source replacements. Any solution with electrons will be hacked and controlled. Go back to paper, the way Canada does, or did before the Tories rammed e-voting in. I wonder why, I wonder.

I haven't bought a single piece of music since 1999, when the music industry shut down Napster.
Never will again.
Don't collect music, either. Don't miss it.
Please join me in refusnik.
Not a single centavo for the industry that steals every penny off of artists.

That was like six idiots on one video. It was a bullshit misrepresentation of Palestinians, fed into right-wing bigotry, and is a damned zombie lie.

Eric Ralph at Teslarati has an article up right now:
"SpaceX urges Congress to expedite commercial spaceflight regulation reforms"
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.teslarati.com%2Fspac...
"Related to the focus of this particular hearing, namely regulatory reform, Representative Rick Larsen (WA-2) appeared to speak for everyone when he mirrored the four panelists’ sense of urgency for beginning the process of reforming federal space launch regulations by asking for an informal meeting outside the doors of the chamber once the session concluded, stating that “it’s that urgent.” In order for companies like SpaceX (and eventually Blue Origin) to be able to sustainably and reliably reach cadences of one launch per week in the near future, the currently cumbersome and dated launch licensing apparatus will almost invariably require significant reforms."

Blue Origin, SpaceX, the United Launch Alliance and the the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) are on it. Expect some rapid change, mostly in approval time for flights (right now: 200 days!) and a reduction in the huge time periods (90 minutes pre- and post- activity) of the no-fly restrictions around launches and landings.