• callouscomic@lemm.eeEnglish
    586·
    23 days ago

    Americans have been told there is a crisis every fucking presidency for decades. Every election is the most important. Everything is a cultural fight. The president declares some form of emergency every fucking year to disallow certain laws to trigger since the early 90s. And we’ve seen how the electoral college steals elections.

    Fuck the whole system.

    • LillyPip@lemmy.ca
      8·
      23 days ago

      We’ve been staving off fascism for decades, so yes, every election has been a crisis. If you’ve only been paying cursory attention, it may have sounded like we’ve been crying wolf, but if you actually looked up from your daily tasks and paid attention, you’d have seen the actual wolves circling the village.

      Now their plotting has paid off and they’ve breached our perimeter. Unfortunately, it’s harder to do something now the wolves are savaging the villagers. Instead of being annoyed with the people who called this and still saying we shouldn’t have raised the alarm, maybe finally join the efforts to do something about it.

      e: my autocorrect failed

      e2: The influencers at the founding of the US knew the wolves would always be at the door, because the nature of sociopathic demagogues hasn’t changed for centuries.

      Benjamin Franklin was asked what type of government the Constitutional Convention adopted, and he said: ‘A republic, if you can keep it.’

  • remer@lemmy.world
    43·
    23 days ago

    The Trump voters replied that we’re in a constitutional crisis because they believed we were (and still are) in one from the Biden administration. They believe Trump hasn’t fixed the crisis yet.

  • sumguyonline@lemmy.world
    323·
    24 days ago

    More importantly, with how this exact thing happened once 4yrs ago, how did the Democrats do nothing to add checks and balances for the abuses of power he so freely showed he was willing to commit last time? Not one law limiting executive orders, or codifying protections for positions the president chooses. So many additional steps they could have taken to curb the reach of the president, and they instead sat on their hands while the supreme court expanded the powers of the presidency to those damn near an emperor. Nearest we’ve ever been.

        • lobut@lemmy.worldEnglish
          64·
          23 days ago

          Republicans control the senate and Congress and even the Supreme Court. I think the Dems have had a limited window where they’ve had enough control. Not to mention when they have had some control they had members of their party like Sinema and stuff which have controlling votes.

          • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
            94·
            23 days ago

            For some reason Republicans march in lock-step whenever they have power, but Democrats sabotage themselves with infighting. It happened when Obama had much larger majorities too - there’s always some Lieberman that gets in the way of the Democrat’s agenda. This doesn’t happen for Republicans, at least not nearly to the same extent. Doesn’t that strike you as strange?

            • Redacted@lemmy.zipEnglish
              44·
              23 days ago

              This is largely the crux of the divide. On the right they welcome anyone that doesnt oppose then fairly openly, whereas on the left people are so super critical of anyone that mightve been on their side that they push them away.

              • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
                4·
                23 days ago

                And so the reason that Lieberman obstructed Obama’s agenda was because… the left was too critical of him? The reason Manchin and Sinema obstructed Biden’s agenda was because the left was too mean to them?

    • IndescribablySad@threads.net@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      23 days ago

      Biden appointed an absurd number of judges, which is one check. That aside, republicans currently have all three branches of government. Four, if you count the bastardized agency of doge. You can’t fight something when you’re no longer in the ring.

    • alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
      54·
      24 days ago

      Even better: Use all these powers to help people instead of whining about how powerless the president is, and then they’d have been reelected in a landslide.

  • ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
    23·
    23 days ago

    We as a society love solving problems when it’s a crisis. It’s exciting watching people solve the problems when it’s a crisis. It’s boring watching people solve problems before getting to a crisis point.

    Baseball catches are really great example of this. Watch any clip of “Great catches”, it’s someone running, diving to catch the ball. Those aren’t great catches, the player fucked up reading the play. A great catch is when the player is under the ball standing waiting for the ball to land in their glove. That’s boring, so we don’t get clip shows of it.

    It’s the same when it comes to society crisis. We want our leaders to be seen solving the crisis, not preventing it from happening.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
      142·
      23 days ago

      100% agree.

      That said, I was pretty happy when most of Biden’s first term (except the withdrawal from Afghanistan) was pretty silent in terms of political news. I don’t really agree with what he did (or rather didn’t do) as President, but I liked that I didn’t really feel the need to pay attention.

      Some of us prefer forgetting that government exists outside of tax and election seasons.

      • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
        51·
        23 days ago

        This is a perfect encapsulation of privilege. People aren’t upset that Trump is doing horrible things. They’re upset that he’s doing horrible things that might affect them. They want a Democrat who only does horrible things in other countries, so they can brunch in peace.

      • OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
        42·
        23 days ago

        The withdrawal from Afghanistan was about the only good thing he did in his whole career, and libs will never forgive him for it.

        • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          23 days ago

          Agreed, and once he actually followed through on it, I considered my vote for him justified. If Trump also actually pulled out, I would’ve been happy with that as well.

          I wasn’t happy with all the noise in the news about it though. We all knew pulling out would suck, but it needed doing, and honestly, we should’ve pulled out under Obama.

            • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
              2·
              23 days ago

              I was happy with the relative quiet in the news, except for the noise around the Afghanistan withdrawal. I’m not satisfied with his presidency (he could’ve done a much better job), but I am satisfied with the lack of drama.

              That’s what I meant.

  • 1984@lemmy.today
    181·
    23 days ago

    Why do people trust the voting system in USA, when everything else is highly manipulated?

  • tired_n_bored@lemmy.world
    16·
    23 days ago

    Oh but they believe it’s the LGBTQ community that is destroying the democracy, not a fascist dictator and his billionaire cocksuckers

  • hOrni@lemmy.world
    152·
    24 days ago

    How hard could it be? You go into a voting booth, look at the ballot, see Donald Trumps name and pick the other one. It was literally that simple, yat half of Americans fucked that up.

  • brendansimms@lemmy.world
    131·
    24 days ago

    Only 20% of the country voted for him (77mil votes out of 330mil pop) or 49% of people who voted (77mil out of 156mil) so statistically I guess that 27% accounts for people who voted for fascism.

  • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
    91·
    23 days ago

    Starting to really believe in this “Elon used SpaceX Technology to hack voting machines” theory that Donald Trump keeps alluding to.