For the record, carrying a gun while marching in the street while eating apple pie is the most American thing you can do - as long as you’re wearing red, white and blue. This is true for people of any political persuasion, left or right.
In all seriousness, though, it’s our Constitution that brought us to this point. The laws aren’t being fixed - and gaps in the budget are kicked down the road. The government pays corporations in tax breaks, and corporations use their profit to pay politicians their bribes. All of this has been sanctioned by the Supreme Court, directly decided by cases brought before them (Citizens United, for example). The Supreme Court also has “stolen” elections, where the objective winner was not chosen. (Gore vs. Bush)
What we are seeing up to this point is no checks, no balances and no plan for the future. That’s a failure of the Constitution on a massive scale.
IMHO, I think the only chance for salvation is the economy. All middle-class Americans have one thing in common - the 401k. If the economy crashes, especially if the stock market takes an extended dive, then the opposition voices will get loud. The average American will draw a line at destroying their retirement income.
I honestly don’t know which is worse - an authoritarian government that provides a stable economy or an incompetent government that destroys the very country it’s trying to loot.
For the record, carrying a gun while marching in the street while eating apple pie is the most American thing you can do - as long as you’re wearing red, white and blue. This is true for people of any political persuasion, left or right.
In all seriousness, though, it’s our Constitution that brought us to this point. The laws aren’t being fixed - and gaps in the budget are kicked down the road. The government pays corporations in tax breaks, and corporations use their profit to pay politicians their bribes. All of this has been sanctioned by the Supreme Court, directly decided by cases brought before them (Citizens United, for example). The Supreme Court also has “stolen” elections, where the objective winner was not chosen. (Gore vs. Bush)
What we are seeing up to this point is no checks, no balances and no plan for the future. That’s a failure of the Constitution on a massive scale.
IMHO, I think the only chance for salvation is the economy. All middle-class Americans have one thing in common - the 401k. If the economy crashes, especially if the stock market takes an extended dive, then the opposition voices will get loud. The average American will draw a line at destroying their retirement income.
I honestly don’t know which is worse - an authoritarian government that provides a stable economy or an incompetent government that destroys the very country it’s trying to loot.