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"The Constitution is just a piece of paper." - GW Bush Whether he actually said that, or merely behaved accordingly is really irrelevant. The Constitution has
by simonblack 3y ago
"The Constitution is just a piece of paper." - GW Bush
Whether he actually said that, or merely behaved accordingly is really irrelevant.
The Constitution has been shredded for the last quarter of a century. But political parties and most people just don't care about that. The US is in a death-spiral. Look around you. Is this the way things were back in 2000?
- toomuchtodo 3y agohttps://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/03/10/the-polarization-in-todays-congress-has-roots-that-go-back-decades/ https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/03/10/the-polar... https://www.axios.com/2017/12/15/how-american-politics-went-batshit-crazy-starting-with-newt-gingrich-1513306860 https://www.axios.com/2017/12/15/how-american-politics-went-... https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/07/how-american-politics-went-insane/485570/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/07/how-ame...
- anon373839 3y ago> The US is in a death-spiral. Look around you. Is this the way things were back in 2000? I think society was more cohesive in 2000. Multiculturalism, globalism, and technological changes (example: the filter bubble) have eroded cohesion not only in the US, but also in other populous, ethnically diverse societies. Yet, I think this “death spiral” take is a touch dramatic. Our short history is lined with one constitutional crisis after another.