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lol, exactly the kind of laughable response I expected.
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RIGHT!? Like, there are SO MANY options to prevent this, but they won't DO any of them because they fundraise well against Trump and would rather wave the panic in front of their voters to keep them engaged.
Very functional government.
Crazy experience: I told the lib I work with that the democrats actually fund the crazier Republicans to encourage people to vote Democrat and he chuckled and said it's a good strategy (and yes, he said this unironically).
Libs who aren't affected by this election aren't very serious about it.
I got called a "crazy conspiracy theorist" by a good friend for saying that, despite including documentation.
It does feel like the average democrat's ignorant beliefs about the function and mechanics of government leave them mostly unable to understand how government actually functions.
It's a fairytale-level understanding. They believe stories, and know what should happen, and any evidence to the contrary is discarded.
I found myself compelled to apologize to my partner repeatedly as I was teaching them to see past the veil; confronting and analyzing one's beliefs is an extremely painful process when you're doing it for the first time.
Honestly, I'm probably giving them too much credit. Willful ignorance.
Just to anticipate the libs for a second, section 5 puts the burden on Congress to enforce it as SCOTUS pointed out in Trump v. Anderson (2024). However, let's not forget the Democrats had a trifecta in 2021-22 and could have pushed through legislation if they had wanted to ensure section 3 was applied/interpreted properly to this insurrection, which they easily should have been able to do — maybe even a resolution declaring Congress' intent was that it already applied under some old law would have been enough.