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The guy who did it’s probably about to be President again and just got a lot more legal cover.
Folks need to read up on how democracies fail. Shit’s getting real iffy here.
> democracies fail
Is this the democracy where we need to stop voters from voting or give them incomplete information to avoid making bad choices?
Very narrowly, and not but for the uncharacteristic acts of a small number of others like Mike Pence. It could have gone very differently very easily.
Only because his coup failed. That's a very important fact.
Trump would argue he didn't lose the election, and would still be in power if he had his way. I think we should be making it harder, not easier, for the democratic process to be subverted.
All the "will you peacefully cede power" talk before the election sounded like alarmist clickbait, but he was weirdly resistive to admitting he lost, and there are a lot of batshit crazy people who seem to follow whatever he says (see also, Jan 6).
[edit] the score on this post proves its own point. Its vacillated between +4 and 0 since I posted it an hour ago, and there are plenty of hyperbolic people in the replies. Being "OMG THE WORLD IS ENDING" about everything just adds noise that makes it hard to identify truly bad things.
On a site that ostensibly has an ethos of "be curious, not ideological," it's sad to see so many people peering only through the lenses of ideology and panic.
That is an understatement. His entire platform is that he won every state including Minnesota and New York. This is a personal revenge campaign made up around a lie.
Whatever else he did was fairly normal bad-president stuff. Like, pretty bad, but not the end of the Republic or anything. The attempts to overturn the election, and the utter failure of the state to swiftly punish same, are some real “this may not be the end, but you can see it from here” stuff.
Democratic states tend to vote in the person who ends them. It’s clear now that that’s a thing we’re very much at risk of doing. I don’t even necessarily mean a second Trump term, just anyone who follows his blueprint. The voters evidently don’t see that as disqualifying, and the system’s displayed an inability to respond to such attempts.
The sharks may or may not be circling yet, but there’s blood in the water.
okay, buddy. we get it. you're excited and it's making you sound Trumpian.
as to what I actually feel, I am stating that the parent comment (as sibling comments have pointed out as well) seems completely oblivious to Jan 6 and the subsequent criminal events/statements since then.
Hope that helps your reading/rage issue, have a good day.
Highlights: - The DoJ reports directly to the President - No term limits for FBI head - Arrest and prosecute DAs he doesn't agree with - Use the military to enforce domestic laws on citizens
So I would take this one seriously.
If and when Trump gets elected how long do you think it will take the Supreme Court to differentiate between an 'official' act and a 'non-official' act when Trump acts illegally in 2025?
Throw in the recent ruling increasing the difficulty of proving bribery and things are looking grim ( IMHO ).
The problem isn't that Roe was overturned - it's that our legislative system is so dysfunctional that law is being settled in the other branches of government.
Comrade, in the United States, we have 9 supreme court justices.