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[–] Johanno@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Which is what shocked me. I can understand that there are a few foul eggs in politics and if they take the wheel shits going down.

But since his second term literally nobody did stop any illegal shit from him.

The whole system is corrupt and broken. Nobody dares to defy the president even if they are supposed to!

[–] Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

What is happening with this administration is exposing the great flaw of electoralism that anarchists and other leftists have been warning about for nearly a century.

That if we do not restructure our society, our politics and our culture leave us manipulatable to where these corrupt individuals could systematically consolidate power and out themselves or their allies into positions of power.

This is the result of not a decade but over a century of political and systemic manipulation by the owning-class.

Living in the US during this time has radicalized me so much against the system.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago

it all starts with half assing copying the Haudenosaunee's system in 1789

[–] sobchak@programming.dev 8 points 2 months ago

I don't think it's so much "fear" of defying the president as it is they're getting what they want from him (white christo-fascism), and they're getting bribed by the same people. Most of the Dems are also dependant on the same interests as well (not necessarily the white Christian-nationalist stuff, but the same money). The concentration of wealth has put far too much power into too few hands. These same people are heavily influencing politics and public opinion worldwide. Idk, how we get out of this mess; have to bring the entire global economic system to its knees; forcibly redistribute their wealth or make it worthless I guess.