• BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca
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    10 days ago

    The government is allowed to impeach them. Legally speaking.

    The right will block such an action though because they too are corrupt.

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      9 days ago

      The government is allowed to impeach them. Legally speaking.

      Yes.

      The right will block such an action though because they too are corrupt.

      I encourage ignoring the present day situation for a moment. Instead, think along the lines of systemic design.

      If our system exists as a two party system, if one party takes a strong position using whatever legal means, they know the other party will soon also use the tactic in greater magnitude. If they impeach Justices, the vote certainly along party lines, then the composition of Congress changes, and their Justices will surely face impeachment. If one party wisely expands the court leaving room for future expansion, the other party will in the future certainly expand the court to the limit.

      Neither party actually needs to fulfill promises to anyone but those that donate money for the propaganda. The propaganda keeps the vast majority from killing all the would-be kings, money lenders, and politicians.

      The initial designers of our system predicted that the greatest weakness is the possibility of devolution into a two party system. They thought it’d take much longer than “immediately”.

      Coming back to the modern day, and he last several years, I think some protesters said it best:

      Fuck Donald Trump and fuck Biden, too! Neither of them give a fuck about you!

      • manucode@infosec.pub
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        9 days ago

        America’s combination of First-past-the-post and presidential democracy makes a two-party system all but inevitable.