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There are hard and soft approval ratings. The soft number is the count of how many people will vote for/against in the next election. The hard number is how man

There are hard and soft approval ratings. The soft number is the count of how many people will vote for/against in the next election. The hard number is how many want a change today, how many will support recalling thier representatives in order to force change today. In that number, the current administration has widespread support.

greedo 8mo ago
There is no mechanism for recall of Congressional officers.
- sandworm101 8mo ago
  Plenty of state-level reps can be recalled today. That noone is even trying sends the message that the population is generally OK with waiting until the next election ... an election that will be run/managed/counted by those representatives.
  - greedo 8mo ago
    I specifically said Congressional representatives.
- jacquesm 8mo ago
  No legal ones anyway.
  - dotancohen 8mo ago
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    - jacquesm 8mo ago
      I'm not advocating for it, merely observing that that seems to be the way in which the USA prematurely gets rid of politicians that it does not like. It's revolting, the amount of violence in politics and >> what even banana republics get away with and that's on both sides of the aisle so I don't give a rats ass about which side you or anybody else is on. FYI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assassinated_American_politicians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assassinated_American_... Fix your systems, get rid of corruption and try - for once - to act like you mean it with all that talk of democracy because I'm not seeing it. Meanwhile, on HN it is customary to try to not read the worst into a comment. Thank you. Edit: oh, I see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47270814 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47270814 Pot, kettle, and so on, you seem to have no trouble with the USA murdering people.
    - FireBeyond 8mo ago
      I mean, it was okay for Trump to do so, so... "If Hilary gets elected, there's nothing you'll be able to do. I mean, maybe some of you Second Amendment types might be able to, maybe."

greedo 8mo ago

There is no mechanism for recall of Congressional officers.

sandworm101 8mo ago
Plenty of state-level reps can be recalled today. That noone is even trying sends the message that the population is generally OK with waiting until the next election ... an election that will be run/managed/counted by those representatives.
- greedo 8mo ago
  I specifically said Congressional representatives.
jacquesm 8mo ago
No legal ones anyway.
- dotancohen 8mo ago
  [flagged]
  - jacquesm 8mo ago
    I'm not advocating for it, merely observing that that seems to be the way in which the USA prematurely gets rid of politicians that it does not like. It's revolting, the amount of violence in politics and >> what even banana republics get away with and that's on both sides of the aisle so I don't give a rats ass about which side you or anybody else is on. FYI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assassinated_American_politicians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assassinated_American_... Fix your systems, get rid of corruption and try - for once - to act like you mean it with all that talk of democracy because I'm not seeing it. Meanwhile, on HN it is customary to try to not read the worst into a comment. Thank you. Edit: oh, I see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47270814 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47270814 Pot, kettle, and so on, you seem to have no trouble with the USA murdering people.
  - FireBeyond 8mo ago
    I mean, it was okay for Trump to do so, so... "If Hilary gets elected, there's nothing you'll be able to do. I mean, maybe some of you Second Amendment types might be able to, maybe."