scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 4 months ago
Because they don’t expect anything to happen.
Seriously the “do nothing congress” was miles better than our current one.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 4 months ago
Because they don’t expect anything to happen.
Seriously the “do nothing congress” was miles better than our current one.
SpaceBishop@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
This sentiment is wrong. Making some effort to correct course should be a bare minimum. Accepting the broken system as irreversibly corrupt and doing nothing about it is objectively worse than using the institutions as they are intended. Even if these impeachments go nowhere, let it excite voters to turn out.
If you show up and vote for the party that actually wants to accomplish something, here is an example of what can be done. If you want to see checks and balances in action, vote for the party that is willing to make it happen.
With all the talk of the corruption of the most powerful court in the country, here is what the process looks like to fix it.
Conversely, if you just want to lie down and allow the court to continue to tear down the other “co-equal” branches of government, and regress our rights in an overtly corrupt way, then go ahead and sit back down. Do what you seem to prefer our elected leaders do: Shut up and fuck off. Find another place to commiserate with other self defeated losers.
hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
I think you’re misunderstanding the comment you replied to.
The “do nothing congress” was a specific Congress back in the 40s — not a Congress that literally does nothing.
The do nothing Congress passed 906 bills. I believe the current congress has passed something like 68 three-quarters of the way through. That’s the comparison the commenter was making.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 4 months ago
You are correct, that was my sentiment. The do nothing congress was lauded as one of the laziest congresses, to the point they got the name. But now our current congress does even less than that but doesn’t get the ridicule.
SpaceBishop@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Oof. Y’all are correct about the misunderstanding. I apologize for the heated response. Being wrong kinda takes the fire out of my indignation and now I just feel foolish. Thanks for the lesson, y’all