• kylie_kraft@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    I’m sure you’ve heard this before, but laws become meaningless when no one will enforce them. This is all happening because the US forefathers did not envision a scenario in which all 3 branches of government would be corrupted in the same way at the same time. Terminal cancer, more or less.

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      4 hours ago

      No, they did, if a group wins it all, and nobody overthrows them, then they represent what the people want. Actions speak loudest… The people want this.

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        57 minutes ago

        Try that again but this time make it about Native Americans or Palestinians. Failing to overthrow your oppressors is not tacit approval of their agenda.

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        3 hours ago

        Texas blocked federal investigators from monitoring the election. I’m not convinced they won.

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      6 hours ago

      This is all happening because the US forefathers did not envision a scenario in which all 3 branches of government would be corrupted in the same way at the same time

      … and your continued belief that a document written hundreds of years ago, in a proverbial different world, must have all the possible answers until the universe freezes over

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        Don’t put me in your box. I actually don’t have much belief in the constitution. It was written 250 years ago, exclusively by slaveholding white men, and should have been rewritten multiple times by now. In fact, this is what many of those who wrote it intended. However, it is worth recognizing that if the constitution were rewritten in the present political climate, the US would become the corporate Gilead that it is inching toward overnight.

        So, if the constitution as it is today is the basis of law, then it should be enforced without prejudice and for everyone, even those charged with enforcing it.

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          5 hours ago

          I don’t know your background so I can only go by what you post. When you blame it on the lack of foresight of the “forefathers” it sounded like you believed it. I agree it should have been rewritten multiple times by now.

          However, it is worth recognizing that if the constitution were rewritten in the present political climate, the US would become the corporate Gilead that it is inching toward overnight.

          Absolutely and with the brain washed American MAGAtards, they would sign themselves up for slavery if they though, maybe, the people they hate so much will get at least a few more lashes than they will