I trust democracy to safeguard democracy.
Except that presumes the people entrusted to run it will act in order to protect democracy when threats to it arise. And the Republicans under Trump have shown over and over and over again that they will not lift a finger to stop him from doing or ignoring whatever he wants.
@silbasa
But the system is beeing hollowed out and gnawed on by the left.
No, it is not. Absolutely and completely, it is not. It is not the Democrats who have decided that one person can just be the Senate, giving carte blanche to the president and indefinitely shelving any proposal that isn’t 110% in their party’s favor. It is not the Democrats who have broken the judiciary by pushing through grossly unqualified and partisan picks. It is not the Democrats who ignore court rulings, even supreme court rulings, if they don’t like the verdict. It is not the Democrats who have lied and undermined confidence in our elections and trampled over the rights they are supposed to be protecting. Every instance where Democracy was threatened, where the system was bent over backwards until it broke, has been Republican instigated, Republican supported, and, by the Republicans, ignored.
@silbasa
Trump is temporary.
He certainly doesn’t seem to think so. And his party seems perfectly willing to let him be anything but.
But of all the things you have said and been dead wrong about, I’m very much hoping that about this and only this, you are correct.