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Originally Posted by timun
If there's any one thing in the last five years or so that has done the most to convince me that the US is a broken democracy it wasn't the January 6th coup attempt: it was McConnell's justification for refusing to even consider Garland's nomination to the Supreme Court. Nine months before the 2016 election was "too little time" and needed to be pushed to the next president's term, yet Ginsberg died only 46 days before the 2020 election and Barrett was sworn in 38 days later, a week and a day before the election. The hypocrisy and corruption was so blatant I couldn't believe it.
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100 percent. It has been like watching a car crash in slow motion and being unable to do anything to stop it. McConnell's blocking of that nomination will go down as the undoing of the 50 State American democratic system.
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Originally Posted by 1991 Canadian - November 9, 2016
On a worldwide scale we are seeing the rise of populist anti establishment ideas and leaders. Duterte. Putin. Brexit. Numerous ultra right wing parties in Europe.
Incomes are stagnating. Inequality is growing. Debt is growing. The middle class has been slowly squeezed out for decades. People are incredibly frustrated with the political establishment.
It is not surprising in the slightest that the more populist candidate won over the longstanding career politician.
What is surprising is the democrats had a populist candidate of their own (Bernie Sanders) who would've had a shot to capture the populist vote and driven the youth vote.
The democrats haven't just lost this one election. They've lost the Supreme Court for a generation.
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Truthfully, even when I made this comment, I thought it would be more of a 10-15 year horizon before the true impact of right wing proto-fascism would undermine the USA.
Within 3 years, I truly think we are going to see the wealthier coastal blue democratic states secede from the union.
I am genuinely worried the path the USA (and frankly the world) is going down. All the canaries in the coal mine are dead.