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Lydia Polgreen@polgreen.bsky.social |
The thing I can't stop thinking about is this: I'm 48, and in my adult lifetime there has been one Republican who won the popular vote. But I will probably spend the rest of my life under the authority of a Supreme Court dominated by hard right conservatives. How is that democracy?
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marcosantana
@marcosantana.bsky.social
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What happened to Mussolini?
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Pyperkub
@pyperkub.bsky.social
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Psst. It's not. It's not even a Republic anymore either, just an Oligarchy.
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Astrid Willis Countee
@ianthro.bsky.social
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I asked this question a long time ago and came to the conclusion that it’s all democracy until some minority groups win a few things then everything is rigged which justifies ripping it all apart to make sure white folks start on top again.
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Chris Brennan
@chris-brennan.bsky.social
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This is not democracy. We live under an illegitimate constitutional system where fundamental decisions made to appease slave states have been locked in by a process that makes changes (outside of the Bill of Rights and the Civil War amendments) very rare and incredibly difficult.
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Exodor
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It’s not. It’s time for a new constitution or to break up the country. Living under rules written in the late 1700s is madness
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Lydia Polgreen
@polgreen.bsky.social
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I know we have a counter majoritarian system. I am familiar with the constitution and our history. I know why this is technically possible. I am asking whether it is tenable to keep thinking of our country as a democracy when it works out like this.
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𒄯𒊕
@azubir.bsky.social
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Western Civilization is a few versions of AI away from having the truth of its existence forced upon it. Lol Conservatism will fall.
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Johnny Brown
@ainteefa44.bsky.social
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Because Dems have too weak and pathetic to do anything about it.
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BygoneBegotRisk
@bygonebegotrisk.bsky.social
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Self-answering question.
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PoundingThePodium
@poundingthepodium.bsky.social
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It's not, it never was, and especially not for people who aren't white.
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Elrond Hubbard
@danmitchell.bsky.social
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Ask your bosses.
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Phil
@keeptheskyblue.bsky.social
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I don't see the U.S as having a democracy like most developed nations. It seems closer to a corporate oligarchy at this point. 🤷🏻♂️
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Mr. Bob Dobalina
@skyballer.bsky.social
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@i-like-guineapigs.bsky.social
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These "rules" should not apply in the current time we live in. These rules only apply when women could not work. Women pay taxes... & what for?? To keep having our rights stripped away?? REFUND PLEASE!
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Sarah K
@purpliser.bsky.social
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It's not, America is a Monarchy now and Trump is King. 6 decades of appeasement from the Left made sure this would happen.
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Julie DiCaro
@juliedicaro.bsky.social
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Ugh
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chrisincal.24
@chrisincal.bsky.social
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The house was frozen at 435 back in 1911. Proportionality was broken, and rural states have an outsized impact on choosing presidents.
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Simon
@thedenature.bsky.social
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It’s not even (small-r) republicanism.
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Flying Pace
@flyingpace.bsky.social
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It's not. I hope you'll push for the most elegant solution here: POTUS declaring SCOTUS has overstepped its constitutional powers and using this new "official acts" exemption to pack the Court without delay. (I share your view that Biden is at diminished capacity, but he is still capable of that.)
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Beachik
@beachik.bsky.social
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Why does it feel like Iran?
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Victor Ha
@victorha.bsky.social
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Not only that but if the President decides to have you murdered, as long as he tells a couple of his cabinet, he is immune from any consequences at all as far as I can see. America, as an idea of equality under the law is now finished. The Supreme Court have turned America into Russia it seems.
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RawFrustrations.bsky.social
@rawfrustrations.bsky.social
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The US was never a democracy. The oligarchy just saw it useful to maintain the theater, but they always had a near total control of the outcome.
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Katherine E. Davis
@kakeeweezie.bsky.social
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Enough is enough.
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Paul Allopenna
@paulallopenna.bsky.social
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Is court-ocracy a word?
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Frank D’Elia
@frankd7.bsky.social
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The elites have achieved their wet dream: they’ve rolled back the 20th century.
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Burke Daddy
@burkedaddy.bsky.social
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Even the idea of checks and balances is no longer in consideration in the U.S.
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Beer Cheese 🏴🍻
@beercheese.bsky.social
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Haha. There is no democracy here. The rich will be rich. Fuck the rest of us
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Think. It. Through. 🙅♂️
@cfaller96.bsky.social
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It’s not. We were lied to, by our parents, our teachers, our officials, and our lawyers.
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Norbizness
@norbizness.bsky.social
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This dropped two minutes after your post, apparently management actively doesn't care
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@marchforsanity.bsky.social
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Speak to your employer . . .
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Raven Onthill
@ravenonthill.bsky.social
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The President should arrest them.
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Tim Macinta
@tim.macinta.com
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The last Republican president to enter office with the most votes was elected in 1988 - over a third of a century ago. Exactly *zero* entered office our adult lives (I'm also 48). (W won the popular vote only as an incumbent.)
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Cow Cat
@cowcat7.bsky.social
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The USA has never been a democracy, it's a Republic Which means it doesn't have to do what the people want
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Diego Devereaux
@bigjimmy.bsky.social
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Mitch McConnell is responsible, his sole mission has been to stack the courts with as many Federalist Society members as possible.
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD
@ubiquity75.bsky.social
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Hi. Same story here. The electoral college is a joke.
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AkivaMCohen
@akivamcohen.bsky.social
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A biden win this election probably results in a 5-4 liberal court
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This Sandwichman is Tom Walker
@thesandwichman.bsky.social
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Yeabut. When they go low, we go "hi!"
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matt605060.bsky.social
@matt605060.bsky.social
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I love your work. I enjoyed hearing you on Kai Wright's program this past weekend. Through the choices its making regarding its news judgment and political coverage, the organization you work for is helping to lay the groundwork for this to go even further. Do you have any influence?
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Rufus T. Firefly
@rufustfirefly.bsky.social
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I'm not much older and regularly hear some who think the Electoral College doesn't exist.
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Tiffany Knoell, Ph.D.
@tlknoell.bsky.social
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I'm in the same boat.
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Max Kennerly
@maxkennerly.bsky.social
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Yep. I'm 42. The first election I was old enough to vote in was decided by 5 Supreme Court Justices leaping in to stop a state recount, admitting their legal analysis was a one-off, then never analyzing any future case the same way. And it will be like this until I die.
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dorth vader
@dorthvader.bsky.social
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If you’re 48, doesn’t that include Reagan, George HW, and George W’s second term?
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ChristofPierson
@christofpierson.bsky.social
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The right-wingers have actually been right all along. It isn't a democracy. It's an oligarchic republic by design. The minority view outweighs the majority view by virtue of being given extraordinary rights. Little did the mobophobic founders know that the mob would rule from the minority.
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Navid
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Two Republicans - Reagan and Bush Sr.
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MKrebs 🌻 🇺🇸 🇺🇦
@mkrebs.bsky.social
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It's not.
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Maya Media
@mayamedia.bsky.social
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We don’t live in a democracy. Or a republic, of course. www.bbc.com/news/blogs-e...
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@ramonarjona.bsky.social
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Its not. And until Dems get a spine and a majority it will never be.
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'Swas
@sbeen.bsky.social
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Same, and I'd only add that a lot of my life was facilitated by the golden window, before I was born, when the Court wasn't dominated by the hard right.
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Arterial Z
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It's a democracy that since the 80's has surrendered it's power to corporations and now every last Congress member is heavily invested in meta, apple, tesla et al.They send strongly worded letters tho! People can organize but tiktok is fun.. Woke (aka decency) is bad thing - only mass protest left
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Jen Ebbeler
@jenebbeler.bsky.social
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Same. 52 here but still. Hard to accept that the rest of my life will be spent living out the consequences of this mess.
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TM
@tm71.bsky.social
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It’s not.
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minxmarx
@minxmarx.bsky.social
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Democratic pols are simply Slip-'N-Slides at the end of which is Republican rule.
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Ellz
@ellz.bsky.social
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Needs work Who wants to work on it!?! We do
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Richard
@renuvian.bsky.social
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The constitution is a garbage document written by alcoholics and the fact that we constantly praise it is really dumb
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Jay Marose
@jaymarose.bsky.social
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Bill Clinton was impeached and $60 million spent. His crime? He lied about a personal matter in a deposition in an investigation scotus just said was illegitimate on 3 levels. He should get his law license back.
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Caleb Bryant Miller
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I think of us as an oil company with a standing military to support, we like to cosplay democracy when it doesn’t interfere with the first two components.
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Doug Moffett
@liberallibra.bsky.social
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Well, just a little heads up here....IT FUCKING ISN'T!
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@shauk.bsky.social
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I just hit 50 and am glad that I will die soon so I don't really care anymore
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Katen Moore
@katennp.bsky.social
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you are still young enough to get out of here...some of us are trapped.
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cats_hell_yeah
@sukatra.bsky.social
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I get it, 62 here, I'm afraid I'll spend the rest of my life under a trump monarchy
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Peter Stinson
@change1strategy.bsky.social
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It's not. It's the system the founders gave us. The American Experiment. And now it is all swirling down the commode. And fascism and totalitarianism are enroute
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Helen Boyd (she/they)
@helenofboyd.bsky.social
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yes, this. but i'd argue we've been an oligarchy since Citizens United, which is who we wound up here. it sucks.
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morentsy
@morentsy.bsky.social
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It's not. That's the lie we tell ourselves. Our federal government is not a direct democracy. We like to pretend it is, but it's not.
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Love
@drlovef.bsky.social
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To be fair the system is winner takes all by state. Only a handful of the states are swing states. How and if you vote likely depends on whether you live in a swing state or not. So take popular vote with quite a bit of salt.
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@bluesouth.bsky.social
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Justice Alito is 74.
Justice Thomas is 76.
Justice Sotomayor is 70.
Those are the seats that should become vacant soonest. More democrats should move to Electoral College battleground states, until more states join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
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HtownQueer HIV+
@htownqueer.bsky.social
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We're living under it! Great constitution we got!
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