So many political problems in the US would be solved if these idiots had updated the constitution every few decades instead of trusting that those 18th Century drunken slaver owners knew what they were doing.
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It should have been torn up during reconstruction
Unfortunately updating the constitution requires support from 75% of state legislatures. Since our politics are perfectly split into a duopoly, there is no way for any amendment to get passed as long as either party is against it. In truth, Democrats are to weak or just to invested in the status quo to want to push for any constitutional reforms anyway
It seems wild to me that alcohol prohibition ever passed
Tbf that one was mostly due to anti-immigrant racism, which makes practically any political program go down a lot easier. And specifically anti-german and anti-irish racism played REALLY well in the bible belt.
It also coincided with suffrage and women first entering the voting blocs, and women were overwhelmingly sick and tired of their abusive drunk ass male relatives and husbands.
America did (and does) have a massive alcoholism problem. Prohibition wasn't the correct way to address it, but it's understandable when like half the population are violent drunken slobs.
Conditions at that time were abhorrent and people were even rationed whiskey at work to make it more tolerable. Its just that alcohol was cheap and plentiful. Look up the gin epidemic in England. Cheap hard liquor hit their working class like a freight train.
True. I was referring to anecdotes I had read of Bleeding Kansas, a bit before prohibition, where literally all the combatants on the slavery side were constantly shitfaced and killing civilians. Like there was an entire class of guy who was just drunk and violent 24/7
Sounds like the slaver side was channeling Dirlewanger Brigade energy a century early
Same thing with drug laws we have today, only passed because of racism
It is possible to ignore the document if you have the will to do so
Why are you crying about the fruits of your labor Chuck? You stopped Bernie and got Genocide Joe to wipe out the last of American good will. That's all that mattered right?
I love how he uses "must" but to my knowledge he still hasn't said a single fucking thing about what the dems will do.
The Joe Biden classic: "someone should do something about this"
What do you mean, this is what they will do
Posture on social media
Sorry. Please forgive me.
They’re gonna do a whole lot of nothing, just like their donors paid them to do. Worthless, bought, and impotent - truly pathetic. Minority “leader” Chucklefuck shitposting on social media about the constitutional crisis - you can’t make this shit up.
I’m sure the senate parliamentarian will be informing the repugnantcons this isn’t permitted any moment now…
On Bluesky even liberals are making sarcastic parliamentarian jokes today.
Being in opposition is much more profitable if you don't actually do anything
Imagine if firefighters were like these guys. "Damn you know someone should help put out this house fire. This is a shame" "Sir aren't you the chief of...." "Be silent and praise the sun"
Before they attach the hoses to the hydrants - the Dem Fire Department is planning to form a committee so that they study the issue to eventually create policy positions and then...
Someone other than me and my entire party who has frequently had full control over the entire government must do something!
"Laws are threats made by the dominant socioeconomic ethnic group in a given nation. It’s just the promise of violence ..."
What are you going to do, Chuck? 
I have a feeling your days of having anything resembling a monopoly on violence are over.
I hate that Project 2025 has become some sort of buzzword for what is really the longstanding aims of the conservative political project.
Before the election - Bluesky libs amused me by saying the name of the project was ominous. One, it doesn't sound "ominous" at all. It sounds bland not malignant. Two, who gives a fuck what it's called! I ended up muting Project 2025 for a few months because the libs kept saying the same things over and over.
longstanding aims
It makes me kind of insane how the dems hyper-fixate on Trump and entirely forget history, recent events, and context. Before the 2000 election - if Dubya had had a project 2001 - the right wingers could have gotten everything they wanted after 9/11 because the dems would have wanted to show strength and unity. There surely would have been a bipartisan push to "streamline" the federal government by crippling it by cutting Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, etc.
It was called the Project for the New American Century, Rove and Rumsfeld's very own project 2000
what a useless piece of shit
So I get the supposed point of these social media posts by politicians. Schumer wants to apply public pressure onto other members of congress because he lacks the support for [thing] to do it without the public. (Of course he also does this when he doesn’t really want to do it, but that’s a separate point.)
But at some stage in the development of electoral politics and the news media, the involvement of the public in the political process is so extensive and detailed, what’s the point of having representatives at all? Just feels like a glaring contradiction at some point, where the spectacle of politics undermines its own foundation. The general public might as well have more direct involvement in legislation if they’re expected to micromanage each bill proposal that reaches the floor.
And don't forget polling and focus groups. The dems won't do shit before they look at that data. Then they'll ignore any demands for action and they'll only focus on a concept I detest - messaging.
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I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Trudeau at a protest vibes
When congress doesn't act, it is The People's responsibility to act on their own behalf.