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You don't really. I think that's the big worry. The way to fix it is to change the constitution (for example [1], although bigger changes are probably needed,

by arp242 1y ago

You don't really. I think that's the big worry. The way to fix it is to change the constitution (for example [1], although bigger changes are probably needed, IMHO anyway, but this is a good start) but the constitution is so hard to change that this is not really feasible in the short to medium term. And making it easier to change the constitution is a catch-22. And while the Democratic party is obviously tons better than the Republican party, that's only because the Republican party is so awful. The Dems seem to have only tepid interest to fix this at best. [1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/opinion/trump-constitution-unitary-executive.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/opinion/trump-constitutio...

laborcontract 1y ago
Big worry indeed. What puzzles me is that, for all the claims of the death of monoculture, how is it that politics has resisted these fragmentations? How has Trump managed to consolidate power so strongly within the power? I don't keep up with politics, but I suspect even those in the know have no clue either. Thanks for this link. I wonder how the USA would have fared with that one change in the sentence.
bruce511 1y ago
It's not the democrats job to fix this. It's the voters job. The voters decided to vote democrats out of office. They are the ones with the power here. Democracy is about majority rule. Blaming the minority for not fixing the problem is to miss the whole point of voting. The public decided that this guy, this party, should win the last election. The public will decide who wins the next one. The really ugly truth is that a significant slice of the public think this is going well. Another significant slice thinks this is OK, let's do more of this. You might not like it. I might not like it. Welcome to the minority. (And Democracy does not treat minorities well.)

by arp242 1y ago

laborcontract 1y ago

Big worry indeed. What puzzles me is that, for all the claims of the death of monoculture, how is it that politics has resisted these fragmentations? How has Trump managed to consolidate power so strongly within the power? I don't keep up with politics, but I suspect even those in the know have no clue either. Thanks for this link. I wonder how the USA would have fared with that one change in the sentence.

bruce511 1y ago

It's not the democrats job to fix this. It's the voters job. The voters decided to vote democrats out of office. They are the ones with the power here. Democracy is about majority rule. Blaming the minority for not fixing the problem is to miss the whole point of voting. The public decided that this guy, this party, should win the last election. The public will decide who wins the next one. The really ugly truth is that a significant slice of the public think this is going well. Another significant slice thinks this is OK, let's do more of this. You might not like it. I might not like it. Welcome to the minority. (And Democracy does not treat minorities well.)