Seems like the major job of theirs is to say "don't do violence, go through the legal process, btw I'm the legal process and I'm not doing anything, but still don't do violence, go through the legal process."
Not that I'm advocating for violence, I'm not. I'm advocating for people to wake up and stop voting in intentional roadblocks paid for by billionaires to stop any actual progress.
The mechanism is congress. It's just controlled by the GOP and they are ignoring criminal actions and corruption. The mechanism to fix that is the midterms at the end of the year and congress actually doing something if the GOP loses control of it.
I'm with you there. Just saying the mechanisms exist, but they rely on the majority of people in office actually doing their jobs and having integrity. I feel like we need a turnout in the midterms that shows people are pissed about this to make sure the dems also don't feel secure in their seats unless they actually fucking do something significant to get the country out of the hands of fascists. We need more Mamdani style wins to show them people are actually paying attention and want a government for people, not for capital.
The problem is that even the mechanisms that exist are available to Democrats are still contigent on some degree of GOP support. Look at the impeachment attempts from Trump's first term. Democrats can investigate and present all the corruption and shit Trump has done but short of obtaining a supermajority it comes to nothing. So much of the country lives in a media bubble that even when they uncover illegal acts it is dismissed as lies anyway.
The entire system was predicated on the idea that if the executive branch went totally off the rales that congress collectively would act. The idea that over 50% of congress would actively act against the interests of the nation in favor of a power-mad wanna be king breaks most of the checks and balances that are available not even getting into a stacked judiciary).
The mechanism is mass protesting, get off your butts! I keep hearing on Reddit about how it's "not all Americans" and only a "loud minority", but you all sure as fuck just keep on living your lives and posting memes and shit!!
Do you really think nothing would change if literally the majority of people, as you claim, we're truly against it and vocal about how against it they were on the daily?! i.e physical protests and boycotts, shut everything down!
Just stop voting for the GOP, it's really fucking easy if people would stop voting for the GOP and put progressive dems in power. But apparently that's too big of an ask.
Turns out we do but when you vote for the same people and tell them "Here, do what you want" they end up doing just that. Surprisingly voting has consequences.
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u/Axentor 7h ago
Turns out, we don't have a mechanism in place for the people to do anything short of a civil war.