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No. We did not elect the party majority in Congress or the Supreme Court. If anything, the weakness of our constitution has spoken. Take this as a lesson, and
by analog31 1y ago
No. We did not elect the party majority in Congress or the Supreme Court. If anything, the weakness of our constitution has spoken.
Take this as a lesson, and defend your democracy while you still can.
- tgv 1y agoMaybe somewhat indirectly, but the US population did elect those people in the usual sense of the word.
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- analog31 1y agoThey "elected" candidates who were chosen for them.
- 0xTJ 1y agoThey chose between two candidates chosen via the US presidential primaries. Party members vote for delegates, who vote for a presidential candidate. Republicans chose Trump, then people who voted Republican at the election chose him over the alternative=. He did not hide his fascist and dictatorial desires and he was open about how he wanted to dismantle the government. When he lost in 2020 he threw a fit and tried to have people do a coup. People did in fact elect him, I can just hope that his actions don't leave too much lasting damage here in Canada. (Maybe de-funding US science will help start to reverse decades of brain drain.)
- cvwright 1y agoNitpick: Only one candidate was chosen by voters in the primary. The other was selected by party leaders after the primary was over.
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- insane_dreamer 1y agoWe elected the Prez and Senate majority who appointed 3 SC justices, "flipping" the Court hard right. So yeah, we own that too :/
- 0cf8612b2e1e 1y agoAfter the head of the senate refused to let the president submit a new SC justice.
- warkdarrior 1y agoThe head of the senate was elected, so presumably his actions reflected the wishes of his constituents.
- insane_dreamer 1y agoYes but the Prez was blocked from carrying out the wishes of his constituents (on a terrible argument and on that surprise surprise McConnell reversed his position on once Trump was in).
- stock_toaster 1y agoIndeed. McConnell has done an incredible amount of damage to America over the course of his time as a Senator (blocking supreme court nominations, refusing to call witnesses during the first Trump impeachment, use of the filibuster, delaying/obstructing health reforms, and on and on). Quite incredible, in a way (depressing).
- insane_dreamer 1y agoI detest what he did and agree his actions were very damaging to the US both short and long term, but I have to admire his political abilities.
- tstrimple 1y agoUltimately this is the problem. Conservative voters are the problem. They always have been from fighting to maintain slavery to fighting against women's suffrage to fighting against civil rights to fighting against LGBQT rights. People like Trump wouldn't matter if it wasn't for the tens of millions of conservative voters who support him and who cheer this bullshit on.
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- Findeton 1y agoTrump is a reaction to what was there before him (and in between). Perhaps Obama/Biden were not that bad in comparison, but they went too far in one direction and now the reaction is going too far in the other direction.
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- trealira 1y agoObama was like the Democratic version of Mitt Romney. To equate him with Trump is, bluntly, stupid. If the US stays a democracy, and a Democrat is ever elected as president again, one day we will get a leftist Trump who breaks the law as much as Trump does and is as cruel and stupid as Trump is, and then we really will be dithering back and forth between two extremes like a Latin American country post-dictatorship.
- bdangubic 1y agoIf Trump went too far in the other direction at the same scale as Obama and Biden did we wouldn’t be talking about him other than made up shit politicians feed you so you talk about stupid social wars/issues instead of real issues in this country