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Well, then so many of them shouldn't have voted for it.
We will likely not have access to fair elections anymore. Our country is broken.
YA THINK?
The time to be concerned about the direction of the political system was November of 2024.
It's quite literally too late to do anything about it now. If Trump wants to cancel elections, there will be much hand-wringing and finger-waggling while congress debates about the legality of such a thing in a committee to no avail and the courts slow-walk any kind of injunction that would preemptively prevent them from doing it before it actually mattered.
Why should any of us be surprised that the guy who tried to subvert democracy once before is brazenly and openly stating his desire to do so again? This result was so utterly predictable that I feel secondhand embarrassment for anybody just now getting anxious about the political system.
It's not too late to do anything, but it's too late to do it through political channels.
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They own the voting machines now… https://abcnews.go.com/US/dominion-voting-systems-sold-company-run-former-republican/story?id=126378259
They have since 2001, at least. Diebold, who made the original computerized voting machines was owned by Dick Cheney.
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You mean the one currently spiraling into "murdering citizens in the street"-level fascism?
The average American commuter is too self-centered to bother voting, and NOW they're "anxious?"
Too late, Dipshits. You chose fascism.
America ended when citizens united passed, if not farther back. Blaming the voters is facile. If you need facile things, by all means.
Always shift blaming. The system is so trash that a ton of people no longer care. Irresponsible voters are the worst people
Election participation in US is on similar level to European countries. The turnout is even similar to countries with mandatory voting. Americans do vote, that's no the problem. The problem is that the system is archaic, was shitty to begin with and over time was abused and rigged beyond repair. The problem is that propaganda replaced education long time ago.
I'm my opinion the last time to fix it and save the country was after the civil war. If people recognized back then that system incapable of protecting basic human rights is useless and reformed it properly USA would be a totally different country right now. They didn't and since then it's collapse was just a matter of time.
The problem is that one side has a higher turnout than the other.
Take Texas for example. There are ~1.5 million more registered Democrats than Republicans. And no, gerrymandering isn't the reason.
How many tried to change the system?
Will still vote Republican....
It’s almost like we’ve been watching the checks and balances we were taught would protect us from tyranny fall apart in front of our eyes to a frail, old, nincompoop.
Congress has basically conceded its power to a pedophile. Could that be why we’re so anxious? Or perhaps because the DOJ is allowing laws to be flagrantly violated in public with zero consequences as long as you are aligned with the pedophile and his goals?
Congress has basically conceded its power to a pedophile.
And to a bunch international mobsters relying on the motherfucker not only to have the US collapse on itself but also dismantle the embargoes and subpoenas aimed against them.
Country goes down, they'll have a field day. Interpol would also become toothless as transnational crimes are no longer pressurized.
Ah, there's that good old fashioned American Exceptionalism!
Us non-American are also very anxious about America's political system. Y'all have too many bombs and not enough i.q. points.
Our countries are not safe from falling into facism eirher
I can see how it’s scary for people. No one wants to believe that their state or country is a battleground. It’s easy to say hey you all got guns get civil warring from the outside. As a person where do you step in? Where’s the line?
- When it affects your moral outrage?
- When the politicians corruption and/or perverse behaviours are brazenly being displayed?
- When it affects your disposable income?
- When your fav barista disappears?
- When you see your fellow citizen being executed on the street?
For most of the modern Western world I’m gonna say we are post third point. USA has demonstrated it ramps up quick and a vast majority are tolerating it.
For me you got #2 and #3 mixed. I got financially affected before the outrageous and brazen display of fuckery some have adopted in Europe. That or my perception has been recently altered.
Thats good. It means at least people are reading the moment well.
Yeah…. Finally. I mean, I felt like Jan 6 should have been a really big wakup, but wasn’t somehow
I feel like everyone paying attention was very awake that day.
The problem is the real winner in every election is "didn't vote". Fuck every single person that isn't voting.
I continue to be floored that so many people didn’t seem to care about that - or even admit that it happened. I watched it live and it was genuinely insane. Like, “oh fuck, this is looking a whole fucking lot like a coup, I wonder if we’ll be a democracy tomorrow” insane.
The right wing propaganda machine did such a good job at getting the "apolitical normies" and the otherwise politically nihilistic public to misconstrue the noise as just some left-right partisan debate, with all the buzz about just the rioters; while in the meantime Trump was working in the background at the same time, along with the likes of Rudy Giuliani, to deligitimize the 2020 election in a failed coup, and barely got any coverage. This was Trump's Beer Hall Putsch
Are you suggesting the rightwing propaganda machine is what prevented Biden from arresting Trump on day one in office?
The only reason J6 was allowed to be effective was Biden.
It is the american system. No american president will ever go to jail for crimes
The ratchet effect at work.
If ONLY there was SOME way to Have Known TRUMP would do Things like this during his SECOND TERM AS PRESIDENT!
Like direct, documented quotes or something pants-crappingly (relevant pun intended) obvious like that? What a world it would be if we had such things and a general population WHO COULD READ THEM
Trump is only the puppet of some ultra-right-wing forces behind him in cooperation with tech-oligarchs seeking to take over power.
The actual problem is far bigger than Trump; It's the corporate duopoly masquerading as a democracy that created the conditions necessary for the rise of Trump and the MAGA movement in the first place.
It's bigger, still - the underlying problem is capitalism. Even if we reform the entire electoral system but remain capitalist the problem will reoccur.
About one-third of Americans rated politics and government as the top issue facing their nation.
TBH I expected more, that leaves 2 thirds that are unsure despite a ton of evidence. This is why trump got voted in. I’m not sure what more he can do before a good majority see the problem.
Honestly, knowing American culture and how lots of us refuse to recognize how food prices rent healthcare etc. things that usually top issues are consequences of politics and government, one-third saying "Actually the government is my biggest problem" is a really high number
I wish it was higher as well but unfortunately it's not surprising. These things seem to fall into the same average, and not just the US, it's in Canada too; one-third is rational, one-third is irrational, and one-third is apathetic.
This could be the most significant constitutional crisis in American history (outside the civil war lol) but the constitution is in fact very strong and that’s why America has 250 years of legal continuity
Imagine 200 more years of successful EU integration and that’s essentially what America is so there’s a 99% chance it’s not going to collapse or something
But it will be a difficult and desperate and deadly fight but do not fall for the doomerist propaganda everyone needs to get out and help in some way and especially vote because Republicans always lose when people simply go out and vote
Dude they're literally saying the last Democrat wins were rigged, Trump is talking about nationalizing elections, Bannon wants ICE surrounding the polls.....
What are you smoking? If you don't want to do anything right now, fine. But don't insult people's intelligence by pretending anything resembling a normal election is going to happen. Not as long as they are in power.
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Eh, I give the US a solid 40% chance that it won't collapse within the next 50 years.
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