My teacher in middle school did specifically call out that it would take a project over several decades to co-opt the system.
Well, they’ve been going after the judgeships for decades.
Yeah. That’s exactly what happened.
Turns out it only works if the population doesn’t believe they want that.
Checks and balances wasn’t about avoiding fascism.
It was to make sure all three branches of governments stayed in power over the body politic.
And they still are in power.
When I was growing up, they told us the US was the greatest country in the world. Now that I’m older, I realize it’s one of the worst in the Western world in nearly every statistic.
Maybe it’s time you guys rewrote your constitution into something more modern instead of treating the old one as a holy scripture handed down from Olympus.
But I doubt that’ll ever happen.
Now is definitely not the time to rewrite the constitution. Could you imagine what the powers that be would do to it?
Subscription based rights.
Trump is about to rewrite our Constitution, just not the way it should be written.
If he does, at least it’ll show that it can be rewritten.
Like all those amendments did?
To be fair we were lied to growing up. Be nice to others and santa.
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I’d believe it when I see it
A lot of people are being shown that a lot of stuff that kept their country going was decorum, shame and tradition, not rule of law.
Interesting take on The Social Contract.
But basically when your entire socoety is disingenuous to some extent, shit falls apart eventually.
removed in that armor was allow people without education, attention, and just plain common sense to vote
That’s a slippery slope my friend. Who gets to decide who is qualified enough to vote? What happens when they decide only select few can vote?
Kinda why the Electoral College exists.
But it was too cool to hate on it.
Because the people running the game know without it the game becomes who has the best propaganda.
Well, as you have seen, the game of propaganda was won by the ignorant, dark visioned, loudmouthed clowns
Considering the power dynamic, is calling them the ignorant ones correct?
Sounds like you agree with Plato. It makes sense.
America was built on the ideas of freedom and equality by slave owners who didn’t think women should be allowed to vote.
Not exactly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut_Compromise
Most places wanted no slavery.
The original tryanny of the minority was the planation owners that would not join beyond the Articles of Confederation unless they could continue with the slavery.
Women were still held down as they had been hisrorically, damn near everywhere. Not realy unique here.
I mean, they did give an earnest try at preventing a king from happening, and it did work for a couple hundred years.
But they got it started and we changed some things. We just didn’t change enough, or perhaps changed the wrong things.
Regulatory capture and citizens united both exist to undo those checks and balances. No system is immune to corruption.
