How American Institutions Failed to Meet the Moment
Lol! What failure?
Seems to me that they succeeded in their anti-democratic function, and succeeded spectacularly.
this post was submitted on 23 Jan 2025
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of course the elites refused to use them. they are the ones who wants this to happen
Good article, thank you for sharing.
It reminded me of the recent resurgence of people finally saying why is the onus of recycling on the individual consumer rather than those producing the trash to begin with. We can only change so much by voting, and only so often. There are (were?) whole departments and branches of government that were supposed to prevent a group of maniacs from taking over as their sole responsibility. Meanwhile they were all as asleep at the helm as the guard monitoring Epstein's cell.
The moment appears to be ongoing. Let's assure they meet the moment moving forward.
They won’t, they exist to protect capital.
Giving up is not an option.
Well look at the democrats just casually handing over power to a fascist they did nothing to stop from gaining power.
then the only answer is to make them
Trump is halting government actions not first approved by his appointees. The limited power they had is being nullified
Wow these kinds of people are naive babies worshiping ancient slavemaster pacts.
because they are bribed not use them on both sides of the isle