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Funny how democracy works, I recall an election recently not a coup. Government is not a monolith, this isn’t the action of one single person, but the result o
by newsclues 2y ago
Funny how democracy works, I recall an election recently not a coup.
Government is not a monolith, this isn’t the action of one single person, but the result of tens of millions people voting for change (that you disagree with).
- jimkleiber 2y agoPeople voting for an elected official is different than that elected official breaking the law. People can't vote to break the law. They can vote to rewrite the law, sometimes, depending on how the law is written. Often in the US we vote for elected officials who write law and then the elected president who enforces the law. So whether tens of millions of people voted for Trump doesn't mean Trump can just disregard law because people liked him and maybe even liked that he said he would disregard the law. As far as I know, that's not how the rule of law works in representative democracies.
- groestl 2y ago> People voting for an elected official is different than that elected official breaking the law Not if the elected official pledged to break the law before being elected. > People can't vote to break the law. That's exactly what they did. > As far as I know, that's not how the rule of law works in representative democracies. I fear that's also not what the US has become now.
- junon 2y agoNobody voted for Elon.
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- belter 2y ago> I recall an election recently not a coup. List of dictators that achieved power via what were at the time, free and fair elections: Adolf Hitler - 1933 Ferdinand Marcos - 1965 Alberto Fujimori - 1990 Robert Mugabe - 1980 Alexander Lukashenko - 1994 Hugo Chávez - 1998
- newsclues 2y agoWhich of these was elected, lost power, and were elected again? Normally dictators don’t let go of power
- bad_haircut72 2y agoHe tried pretty hard to not go, there was a riot if you recall. Also some calls to Georgia governor to find non-existent votes.
- newsclues 2y agoAnd yet he still left peacefully and Biden became the president. Reality check.
- Attrecomet 2y agoA riot including violence and attempts to murder opposition or perceived opposition officials is hardly "peaceful", so yeah, "rEaLiTy ChEcK"...
- Auracle 2y agoA riot where he specifically told them in the speech before "I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard." ?
- BHSPitMonkey 2y ago
- tsimionescu 2y agoWhen an elected official goes far beyond their legal powers to take control of the country, that's called a coup. Yes, even if they were perfectly legally elected.