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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: koan who wrote (437385)4/8/2020 6:50:18 PM
From: Jamie153  Read Replies (1) of 541848
 
If Trump said "no more elections" it'd be headline news. Then there would be endless discussions (which I'd turn off) and then polling. The polling would change slowly but after a few polls a majority would favor getting rid of free elections.

It's not like there's a lot left to save. Our Constitution lay in ruin. Our finances are irreparable. The economy is collapsing. We don't have a functioning government and Supreme Court rulings are based on what the party wants.

Our version of capitalism is based on using slave labor in poor countries to make cheap stuff for us because we're not paid enough to buy the good stuff and our corporations and farmers are dependant on welfare called tax cuts, subsidies, and bailouts.

What's left to save? The idea of government of, by and for the people was very noble but unrealistic. The oligarchs controlled Congress, then the Courts. Then they destroyed the rule of law.

It started with Citizens United. History will not be kind.

But there is hope, a tiny almost infinitesimal ray of hope. Judges could resign (Roberts), the gop could suffer the most humiliating defeat in history and the media could be banned from reporting things that are not true (ie: all things republicans say).

Will any of these thing happen? No. We admire failure. Republicans voted for a man who went bankrupt four times and remarried three times and screwed around behind all their backs (but one bj was impeachable...we can only hope it was a very good bj).
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