The former president and his backers aim to strengthen the power of the White House and limit the independence of federal agencies.
The former president and his backers aim to strengthen the power of the White House and limit the independence of federal agencies.
No system of government can withstand 50% of its participants being bad actors.
I honestly don’t know how we get out of this situation without aggressively litigating politicians that have committed crimes. That requires overwhelming political will, though, and it’s obvious now how important Fox News and Right Wing radio has been to creating an atmosphere where that will doesn’t exist.
I want to say maybe 20% to 30%.
It’s very scary. As an ethnic minority I am only as safe as my government lets me be.
You can go from democratic Weimar Republic to Nazi Germany in a space of a few years.
Of the population, sure. But I meant of the actual political actors in the system, Republicans make up about half as they are overrepresented when compared to the population.
The way to bring Republicans to heel is for them to keep losing until they give up and try something else.
Between 1860 and 1912 exactly one Democrat - Grover Cleveland - managed to be elected president; Woodrow Wilson ended that streak in 1912 in no small part by breaking with his party to embrace progressive reforms (though the intra-party GOP split between TR and Taft also helped), and while Wilson was one of the worst racists to ever inhabit the White House, that embrace of progressivism nevertheless set the stage for the era of Democratic dominance under/after FDR.
What dominance. I have seen 8 years of reagan, 4 of bush sr, 8 clinton, 8 bush jr., 9 obama, 4 trump, and getting to 4 biden. The majority for me has been unfortunately republican.
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Then what are our options? Just lay there and take it? Because I swear if I have to keep eating fucking dirt just to get by while these pigs treat our society like their personal body pillow I’m going to lose my god damn mind. If such blatant disrespect for our society and judicial system continue stability will begin to collapse.
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I don’t. I’m thinking this is one of those times where the background noise has escalated to a bloody scream and the time for good endings has passed. The thing is, in a truly civilized society, you don’t end up here. We are much closer to our primal states than we all want to admit and the emperors in charge are just now being truly seen in their new clothes. I don’t know the question, but I do know the answer that will follow.