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3 is the only thing that’ll work, but things are going to get much worse before it’ll happen. The system is fundamentally and irreparably broken and needs to be thrown out.
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Submitted 2 months ago by Brainsploosh@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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earphone843@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
RoboRay@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Just wait it out for a few more years and things will settle down. This isn’t anything new… the US has gone through a very similar period of political upheaval and realigning of parties every two or three generations since it was founded. This one isn’t even the worst we’ve had.
echolalia@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
All federal employees have been reclassified to political employees instead of nonpartisan civil servants, meaning they are closer to at will employees.
This has never happened before.
All federal employees now serve at the will of the party in power. There will be loyalty tests. There will be entire departments defunded and dismantled.
They are reviewing social media posts as we speak to decide who to keep. That’s right, that includes folks at the CDC, FDA, EPA… every paperwork jockey, no matter how minor their position, is now subject to the whims at the party in power in a way they were not before.
All these firings will be contested. They’ll go to the courts. Say… Who owns the courts right now?
You have no idea what is happening. The purges begin 90 days from now.
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
I was talking with some kids the other month (Berkeley grads, so “kids”=mid 20s), and they really believed this current shit show is no big deal because they were taught about “checks and balances” in HS. It blows my mind that anyone thinks Fuckhead and the current GOP is just a normal swaying of the political pendulum.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Just wait it out for a few more years and things will settle down.
That’s not at all how this works.
This isn’t anything new
It is. Yeah, we’ve had a civil war. We have not had creeping fascism, new rules that allow a president to be entirely lawless, a corrupt supreme court, a woefully misinformed populace, Nazis in the White House, and oligarchs buying legislation and creating insane wealth disparity all happening at the same time.
This isn’t a realigning of the parties. It’s fascism taking hold.
WraithGear@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Nope, i mean other than direct action.
LemoineFairclough@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
There is more discussion that might be useful here: ponder.cat/post/1453581
LemoineFairclough@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Something that might be useful is a general strike (see sh.itjust.works/post/9745322 and sh.itjust.works/post/31602246 also). It would be nice for more people to be unionized in preparation for that. I suspect that it would be better to start unionizing for jobs that more people have (like Personal Care Aides or people working in a retail store or fast food restaurant), since after having a union contract is more normalized it’d probably be easier for people like medical doctors or pilots or lawyers to have a union contract.
I’m personally interested in electoral reform (see !rcv@ponder.cat and !fairvote@lemmy.ca also), such that I wouldn’t have to worry as much about coordinating with other people before I vote. However, it’s guaranteed that someone will always be dissatisfied with the results of an election that isn’t unanimous, so that might not be a complete solution. A more general solution might be to handle more things locally with voluntary organizations. Another option could be to generally devolve power to local institutions (like to a state government or municipality) or to create more independent institutions that are directly accountable to the government of the United States but can act autonomously (like the Federal Reserve System) so that less is dependent on the Congress or the President, and then to reduce the authority of more powerful institutions. If some states withdrew or were expelled from the United States of America that might help (since the power of an expelled state and a post-expulsion United States of America would naturally be more local, and the power of each would also affect less territory).
Brainsploosh@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I like your suggestions and I think they’d go a long way towards preventing the current situation to spontaneously happen again.
But I don’t think I see a path toward it until someone consolidates power to then create stability enough for these types of policies to be approachable.
I can’t see neither Florida nor the Senate voting (anytime soon) for anything like that decentralisation of power.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Do you hate Russia and China? How about Iran, North Korean, Cuba and Venezuela? If yes, then politics funding warmongering are certain to prevail. Past US military budgets + interest on those deficits are sufficient to account for all US debt. Trusting the government and media telling you who to hate, keeps them elected. Netanyahu telling you Iran is the US’s enemy, or Iraq has WMDs, is why you hate them and support war.
The DNC can’t save you if they love Netanyahu just as much as the GOP candidate, because the GOP won’t try to balance pandering to anti-genociders. Trump has no qualms in Kent State-ing university anti-genocide protesters. He is better for Netanyahu, and then the Zionist single issue lobby that determines election results.
Your tolerance for war is your tolerance for politicians that will give you war. Progressives for war do not get much progressive stuff done. Though oligarchist bribery money rains when they are close to a majority to get some small stuff done.
UBI is path out of the spiral. UBI redistribute power not wealth, and prosperity grows significantly to the benefit of everyone including the rich. War becomes unpopular because we could all just have more cash instead. Nationalist “war preparation”/tariffs unpopular because we could have cheaper stuff instead.