“The US is no longer a democracy.

[finchhaven@sfba.social]

@KathyLK

That's right

Everything is #JoeBiden's fault

Funny how I keep forgetting this

Always makes thinking so much simpler

If you even bother with 'thinking' at all

cc @heidilifeldman

[donray@mastodon.online]

@heidilifeldman

Quibble: Congress has not “been marginalised.” Congress abdicated.

[lisettedeboer@mastodon.social]

@heidilifeldman Strange coincidence that he goes by the name of Lindberg.

[garthderby@mstdn.party]

@donray @heidilifeldman

I agree. They are certainly compromised, but this can be corrected. Fixing the American people though…

[book@beige.party]

@heidilifeldman This is somehow news?

'Agency confirms the tant obvious, states centrist media.'

[book@beige.party]

@heidilifeldman that's not me having a go at you. I simply thought we were beyond this. Or is this The Rubicon for some? For us, it was a while ago.

[josh@hactivedirectory.com]

@KathyLK @heidilifeldman Wouldn’t it be more useful to hold Trump accountable for his actions than to hold Biden accountable for Trump’s actions?

[zetabeta@mastodon.social]

@heidilifeldman
77 million voted for this. 80 million let it happen by non-voting.

more or less they knew.

there are those excuses: "i didn't vote for this." "i didn't know this to happen." certain point those are not acceptable.

[libramoon@mastodon.social]

@heidilifeldman

if enough of us wrote/emailed/phoned/screamed outside their office to our congressional
reps to IMPEACH or face voter outrage leading to being voted out, and kept it up,
eventually we could regain our democracy

If you know of actions bringing people together as a force
to be reckoned with, while the world is up in arms against
Trump for so many reasons,
when the economy is getting ever worse ...
then Spread the word

https://lauriecorzett.substack.com/p/what-every-us-citizen-can-simply
#uspolitics #democracy

[pinoycelt@mastodon.social]

@heidilifeldman No, the US has always been more accurately described as a constitutional republic (if anything, maybe you can call it an indirect democracy, but definitely not a pure form of one). I believe this article best sums things up: https://www.standrewslawreview.com/post/is-the-united-states-a-constitutional-republic

[ferrix@mastodon.online]

@heidilifeldman man in fairness Congress mainly marginalized itself by a gradual conversion from legislating to being an insider trading sinecure

[nonya_bidniss@infosec.exchange]

@heidilifeldman Republicans packing the SCOTUS with regressive, religious, monarchist kooks has paid off exactly the way they wanted.

[jrdepriest@infosec.exchange]

@FinchHaven @KathyLK @heidilifeldman

Democrats were so concerned with decorum that they let a traitor get away with treason / sedition and then he got elected President.

They deserve to accept some responsibility for where we are right now.

[donchacale@mastodon.social]

@heidilifeldman
gringolandia is naziville

[clickymcticker@hachyderm.io]

@pinoycelt @heidilifeldman “The US falls under governmental classifications for both Indirect Democracy and Constitutional Republic”

This article sums nothing up, unless your point is that it is both a republic and a democracy. If that’s your point, I don’t see the relevance to the topic.

The issue at hand is that the USA has historically been a representative democracy, and the current trajectory will see it losing that status soon.

[joeinwynnewood@mstdn.social]

@donray

That would be, with slight exceptions, Republicans in Congress.

@heidilifeldman

[boss@xarxamontgri.masto.host]

@heidilifeldman
The USA has always been a low quality democracy, or even no democracy at all. But it was hidden. Not anymore.

[lindarosesmit@mastodon.social]

@heidilifeldman to no surprise here.

[luc0x61@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@heidilifeldman I'm eagerly waiting for november event.

[mossyrua@mastodon.ie]

@heidilifeldman

Thanks to the electoral college, it never was a democracy.