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WTF are you talking about? We give consent to the status quo every year we don't make Constitutional amendments. https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/const

WTF are you talking about? We give consent to the status quo every year we don't make Constitutional amendments. https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/constitution https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/constitution I have lost 15 pounds in the last month because I have had to change my food habits due to price increases. It's healthy for me so far, but soon it won't be. People have been promised an immigration fix since Ronald Reagan gave millions of undocumented amnesty in the 1980s. This frustration isn't new, and people in the 1980s under the cold war were pretty avid supporters of the US system.

PaulHoule 9mo ago
"... every year we don't make Constitutional amendments" is kinda proof of the opposite, that the system is broken and no longer able to make constitutional amendments. The Constitution is legitimate in terms of itself, but if you want ask the question of why people don't take threats to our institution seriously the answer is that people don't actually believe in it. The people who run our institutions reject the idea that output legitimacy matters and they will lose our republic on account of that. ("how could we be held accountable for the results we get, we can't control that" is a Hillary Clinton line that she'll borrow trouble with, Trump will only use that line after it has all fallen apart)
- cindyllm 9mo ago
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- gsf_emergency_6 9mo ago
  Gen Z in swing counties within swing states, for they are aware that the republic is not theirs, so paradoxically, it might be emotionally satisfying to lose it for the other gens ;)
- _DeadFred_ 9mo ago
  Because we haven't flexed out power authority in forever doesn't mean we did have it, just that we were too apathetic to be willing to use it. We picked this route, and yet your response it 'but politicians did politician things'. Weak sauce. Politicians don't hold themselves responsible, we do. Or in the case of the USA for the last forever, we no longer do. If it's because the politicians convinced us we are powerless, or some other reason, it doesn't matter. WE CHOSE to give up our power.

PaulHoule 9mo ago

"... every year we don't make Constitutional amendments" is kinda proof of the opposite, that the system is broken and no longer able to make constitutional amendments. The Constitution is legitimate in terms of itself, but if you want ask the question of why people don't take threats to our institution seriously the answer is that people don't actually believe in it. The people who run our institutions reject the idea that output legitimacy matters and they will lose our republic on account of that. ("how could we be held accountable for the results we get, we can't control that" is a Hillary Clinton line that she'll borrow trouble with, Trump will only use that line after it has all fallen apart)

cindyllm 9mo ago
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gsf_emergency_6 9mo ago
Gen Z in swing counties within swing states, for they are aware that the republic is not theirs, so paradoxically, it might be emotionally satisfying to lose it for the other gens ;)
_DeadFred_ 9mo ago
Because we haven't flexed out power authority in forever doesn't mean we did have it, just that we were too apathetic to be willing to use it. We picked this route, and yet your response it 'but politicians did politician things'. Weak sauce. Politicians don't hold themselves responsible, we do. Or in the case of the USA for the last forever, we no longer do. If it's because the politicians convinced us we are powerless, or some other reason, it doesn't matter. WE CHOSE to give up our power.