Comment on Does the US really have no instruments in case a newly elected president immediatelly and openly exposes he's a nazi?

CidVicious@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  And when the nazi controls Congress you know how far that’ll go.

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  • CidVicious@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yeah, it’s rather obviously flawed in light of the current situation, but that is the mechanism that exists in the constitution.

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    • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      That is true. I can’t argue that.

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• Joeffect@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  You mean for the guy who was already impeached twice… And still voted for to be president?

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  • CidVicious@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Well the mechanism for preventing criminals who shit all over the constitution from getting reelected is supposed to be people not voting for him. There’s not really much a constitutional democracy can do about voters being fucking morons. Kind of an inherent flaw in the system.

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    • CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      How do you build a system that doesn’t depend on voters not being morons? Everything I can think of, up to and including full-on authoritarianism, has human shittiness as a glaring weak point. The founding fathers assumed that people would, for the most part, act in good faith, and it kept us going for a couple hundred years, but all that is starting to fall apart.

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      • CidVicious@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I am not arguing in favor of authoritarianism or against democracy, to be clear. Just saying there is an inherent risk that if you give the common people power, the common people might do something dumb with it. I’m not aware of a system that removes that risk without other considerable downsides. There are other democratic governments that have fewer structural issues than the US, but none of them prevent the whole “sometimes, voters are very dumb” thing.

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    • Joeffect@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Well the only vast ocean we have left is space… Time to build some ships and make a new country free from all the bullshit… We can do it better this time!!!

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