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How is this not seen as anything but a massive conflict of interest by anybody with any sort of authority in the current government? How?
the democrats did nothing in their time to safe guard democracy, hoping to wield fascism as a threat to motivate us to vote for their 2000-2008 era conservatism. it was an extremely dangerous game, and one they lost, because they failed to account for how fucking racist and unhinged one third of this country is. the consequence of them being fine with using fascism as a threat against us is that they are also fine with fascism being used against us. they'll just go along with the fascist coup so long as it's apparently what we want
The important thing is we remember that every bad thing that happens is Democrats' fault
I'm sure it was meant as sarcasm, but it's obviously true.
Democrats have no more interest in safeguarding democracy than Republicans do. If they did, they wouldn't continue using their ratchet effect that prevents Republican legislation from ever slipping back. And as Republicans keep shifting even further to the right, democrats continue to fill the void that Republicans just left. This is a result of 50 years of incremental fascism masquerading as 'lesser evil.'
Because they both benefits from the same sources of income, billionaires and some Ds are actually Dinos
yup.
who?. He's the one with the authority.
Judges, and ideally more than two congresspeople.
Probably, but a judge can't just override the president on matters of foreign policy, and he's the head of the political party in charge of both houses of Congress.
Relying on the system to save us from the people given control of the system isn't going to work.