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What the US needs is constitution amendments and safeguards, so that what is happening does not happen again.

• atmavatar 6mo ago
  A big problem is that most of the checks and balances were designed around the assumption that each branch would be independent and adversarial with one another. Unfortunately, the existence of political parties cross-cutting the branches breaks this assumption, and they were created by the very founders who designed our government in the first place. We've been limping around entirely based on the honor system, and after significant capture of the media by a few wealthy individuals, the parties have dropped any pretense of acting for the benefit of the country.
• jaybrendansmith 6mo ago
  Paying taxes this year was more painful than it's ever been, because I am certain some of my money went to the billionaire grifters. If you think paying for good government is bad, try paying for horrible, corrupt government.
• cmxch 6mo ago
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  • foltik 6mo ago
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