suppress wages in prison workshops, and exempt them from minimum wage
And how is that in any way form or shape a good thing?
I’m not saying that it is, I even called it an abomination, I’m just saying that the use of it in the past was limited to people who wouldn’t get much sympathy from society at large, rightly or wrongly.
And I am further saying that one of MAGA’s primary characteristics is finding loopholes in otherwise benign laws and policies, and they have identified 13A as one that ripe for serious exploitation. They simply can’t resist abusing every opportunity that comes their way. Slavery comes with the added advantage of being very lucrative, and Trump REALLY can’t resist that.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
IMHO, the almost idolatry of the Constitution in the US meant that a what’s essentially a Prototype of Modern Democracy kept getting used without a systemic update for too long and was essentially relying on everybody being a gentleman to work.
Personally the whole part were the Political Pillar being in charge of nominating the top of the Judicial Pillar - the Supreme Court Judges - even though in Democracy those Pillars are supposed to be independent, always felt like a major weakness in the face of Authoritarian encroaching, as did the First Past The Post voting system.
That’s the point I’m trying to make: the flaws in the American system are systemic, making it more easy from autoritarians (not just Trump’s Fascists but also the Oligarchy that stands behind both the Republicans and the Democrats) to control it.
The main difference with the Fascists is how brazen then are in doing so, which the other bunch would be far more discrete (hence which the Prison population in the US was already so large under the “other” political party of the US Duopoly system).