• LupusBlackfur@lemmy.world
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    Yep…

    They’ve successfully gotten Congress’ balls in hand, next step is the Judiciary’s…

    I fear the US will not even closely resemble any level of democracy by the end of the next 2-4yrs.

    77M morons handed them the reins. They’re riding hell-for-leather over the cliff.

    🤦‍♀️ 🙄 🤡 🖕 🖕

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    I mean I honestly don’t understand why Congressman even exist anymore. I mean they’ve ceded all over their Authority and power to the executive branch. Mike Johnson should resign and relieve the taxpayers of the burden of his salary.

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      I mean I honestly don’t understand why Congressman even exist anymore.

      To represent their local bourgeois landlords and business tyrants, as a means of coordinating graft across a country as large and diverse as the United States.

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      That’s not it. The thing is that they refused acknowledging that partisanship would evolve. They preferred to hold on to the illusion that everybody involved in office would always be altruistic and solely work for the greater good, which was laughably naive even then (as many people pointed out to them).

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        In retrospect, they should have not made First Past the Post voting our voting standard. That is primarily what has caused our partisanship to arise to the extent that it has.

        We can still change the voting system in each state individually to move away from First Past the Post, but that requires each individual state to have ballot initiative going that people can vote on for a new system such as Ranked Robin voting, STAR voting, Score voting, or even Ranked Choice voting.

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        That part is really up to the voters hence the federalist papers and the whole “masses are asses” thing…

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    We have power of funding over the courts and all these other things,” Johnson told reporters on Tuesday. “But desperate times call for desperate measures, and Congress is going to act.”

    SCOTUS: “Overruled”

    Co-equal branches bitches