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[–] 16 points 1 year ago (1 child)

you know. just like jefferson and hamilton. america has always been this weird form of fascism that fetishizes libertarian ideals while having a top down authoritarian regime. trump is just a lowering of the curtain. everything can get worse faster now because there's nothing preventing them from being who they really are

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    It's absolutely wild that the US president is able to pardon convicts. Like you have a supposedly independent legislature and judiciary, and the the president can just go "nuh-uh" to anything he doesn't like

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    the power of the pardon is meant to be a check/balance. no one really planned for the american people knowingly and willingly voting for corruption

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The way that the parties used to control nominations helped keep ideologues out, and deal makers who knew how to play along in.

    Then the tea party and money in politics went insane and now we have the dumbest Congress people and a somehow even dumber President.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    People thought the smoke filled rooms that gave us Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Goldwater were the most corrupt thing and what we needed was more democracy.

    And 2 generations later we got trump.

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