Want bad things…. reasoning is off base. Brainwashing, low education are contributing factors I think.
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Definitely a lot of factors. I don’t think that people in a vacuum would gravitate towards the current negative political attitudes, they’re influenced heavily in some pretty sinister ways, but really my point is that even with perfectly fair elections these attitudes have substantial followings
aug 14, 2025, 2:44 am • 2 0 • view
Perfectly fair elections? Bullshit. There are voter suppression techniques happening everywhere in this country. Especially red states and anywhere the Republican Party has any influence
aug 14, 2025, 11:32 am • 3 0 • view
Undoubtedly. My point is that even without that voter suppression the electorate is currently not as progressive as would be necessary to fix the issues plaguing this country. It doesn’t have to be that way though. In my opinion effort is better spent changing minds than changing laws
aug 14, 2025, 12:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Plugging a few holes with laws won’t hurt if there is any opportunity to do so.
aug 14, 2025, 5:07 pm • 1 0 • view
Certainly agreed, every opportunity to change laws should be taken, but what I'm really trying to say is that people undervalue public opinion. There is no government free or unfree that can sustain itself very long without it, and that is why even dictatorships work so hard to control public views
aug 14, 2025, 6:11 pm • 0 0 • view
If we focus solely on winning the legal fight, those victories will slip through our fingers like sand when laws are either widely ignored, or conservatives change tactics and make end runs around them. By now you would think people would understand that Trump, despite operating wholly outside of
aug 14, 2025, 6:11 pm • 0 0 • view
the law is able to continue. It is because he has been successful enough in gaining public support that opposing him gets nowhere. In other words, politics are above laws, and cannot be otherwise.
aug 14, 2025, 6:11 pm • 0 0 • view
I certainly agree that public opinion is critical. Trumps ratings are quite low and he still gets near blind support beyond the legal boundaries at times. Look how hard it is to get us to agree on a practical approach. Key parts have to work more effectively than they are.
aug 14, 2025, 7:03 pm • 0 0 • view
'Perfectly fair elections? Bullshit' I agree 100%, ncmimi...and will yet again refer all to @gregpalast.bsky.social and the excellent piece he did, re 2024 election
aug 15, 2025, 3:46 am • 1 0 • view
There will never be an opportunity to do so. America's Constitution is its Holy Cow.
aug 14, 2025, 5:11 pm • 0 0 • view
You are clear about what you think the problem is. The proposal to fix our issue(s) still isn’t clear to me.
aug 14, 2025, 5:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Rip it up and start again. That design for a slave state is worthless, even though the US still has over 800,000 slaves.
aug 14, 2025, 5:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Laws are fundamental to how a society operates. People's minds are not.
aug 14, 2025, 12:49 pm • 0 0 • view
If that’s the case then why are you wasting your time trying to convince me of it lol
aug 14, 2025, 12:50 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm not trying to convince you of anything. I don't care what you think.
aug 14, 2025, 12:56 pm • 0 0 • view
I see
aug 14, 2025, 12:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Good.
aug 14, 2025, 12:59 pm • 0 0 • view