• SkyNTP@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    The SCOTUS and other institutions will not save democracy.

    This bears repeating. The SCOTUS and other institutions will not save democracy.

    Institutions are corruptible. SCOTUS has been corrupted. That is where the US is.

    Only citizen action can safeguard democracy.

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      8 months ago

      Yeah. People don’t seem to understand that once the fascists have stacked the highest court, it’s game over for the justice system and any semblance of due process. The rule of law is dead. They succeeded in killing it.

      Once the fascists have seized control of all 3 branches of government? No amount of voting, protesting, or peaceful demonstration is likely to improve the situation — at that point the only way to restore democracy is through armed revolution and civil war.

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        8 months ago

        Or wait for the dictator to die like Salazar in Portugal. But 1) that would really suck and I don’t want to live thru all those oppressive years, and 2) Salazar was actually competent and could achieve beneficial things for his country.

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      8 months ago

      I read recently a comment that said “The only people who think favorably about SCOTUS are people who remember the Warren Court.”

      Now I’m not that old, but I think there’s a lot of truth in that. SCOTUS got a lot of goodwill from the Warren Court for making progressive, popular, and legally sound rulings. Now people are surprised that under Roberts, the Court has returned to its more-often-than-not pro-business, pro-Christofascist, anti-everything-that-isn’t-rich-white-men leanings.

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      8 months ago

      Safeguard? It’s over if you ask me. We might as well start planning out our revolution already.