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A Coup Is In Progress In America (www.techdirt.com)
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[–] AlbigensianGhoul@lemmygrad.ml 33 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

This is not a coup, this is just politics being enacted. USAmericans are not used to things happening, I guess, but Trump and Musk are stomping over all protocol because they can, and unless their opposition is willing to stop them they will do whatever. Because that bloodied parchment has no material force and no matter what your class interests are, "checks and balances" are merely a convention. This is what politics actually looks like.

This keyboard warrior seems to be horrified at the mere notion that the Executive can decide what the state does, or that they're firing "security officials who follow protocols" (they say that 6 times). I truly hope this is a fake account from an angry laid off USAID worker trying to make a fuss, and not an actual human who believes this.

If "every American need to act now", he should lead by example rather than cheer from the sidelines. Go get 'em patriot. Pathetic.

The American Constitution represents more than just a system of government—it embodies humanity’s greatest experiment in self-governance through reason and law rather than force and will. When the Founders established our constitutional republic, they created something unprecedented: a government bound by law rather than personal authority, where power flows through democratic institutions rather than individual whim. This inheritance, paid for with the blood of patriots from Lexington to Normandy, gave birth to the very idea of modern liberal democracy.

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George "Town Destroyer" Washington.

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 30 points 2 months ago

The American Constitution represents more than just a system of government—it embodies humanity’s greatest experiment in self-governance through reason and blah blah blah

jagoff

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 2 months ago

I think they see it as a coup against their faction. The neocons have had control of permanent bureaucracy for decades on end, and all of a sudden they're getting purged. This is what the freak out is all about.

[–] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Agreed. This isn't a "coup", it's just the consequences of politics. This is what it looks like when an administration actually uses its powers. Liberals have forgotten what that's like because they are pathologically incapable of doing anything proactively, all they want is stagnation and status quo while "business as usual" goes on, because that has always benefited them, that's always been a cushy way for politicians to get rich while doing nothing but getting fattened by lobbyists and then having a go at the good old revolving door.

So i'm sorry, but as the saying goes "you snooze, you lose". Maybe next time they are in charge they should enact some purges of their own. Maybe they should have, as so many people were telling them to do, expanded and packed the supreme court while they still could. If the situation was reversed the Republicans would have had no compunctions doing so.

The founders of the empire understood also that the whole shtick about "democratic institutions" was only supposed to be something you feed the masses to fool them, you weren't supposed to drink your own kool-aid. Politics and governing is not about "norms" or "protocols", it's simply about power and the exercise thereof. Fascists understand this. Liberals don't, which is why they will always lose.