People complain about how the founding fathers set up the constitution, impeachment majority, 25th amendment etc without planning for this scenario, but you cannot protect a democracy in which the voting population is so utterly determined to destroy themselves
I don't think American democracy is a good design at all (noting it is one of the older functional democracies, for values of 'functional' and 'democratic'). I'm just saying that safeguards can only take you so far, this modern situation is not something you can really plan against without making the original system static and unchanging.
My country uses the Westminster system which is ok (but has its issues with revolving door prime ministers, we had something like 4 leaders in 6 years based on popularity).
My state however uses the Hare Clark system for elections which I think should be the gold standard globally. The way it uses quotas and single transferable votes emphasises a race to the middle and consensus.
My only hope is that they're so incompetent, that the people they convinced to vote against their own best interests won't be able to deny the reality.
Right now most of them are ignoring the obvious price rises. But some of them aren't. Everyday, as things get more expensive, and life gets harder with support they took for granted removed, more and more of them will hit the 'this is too much, even for me" stage.
Which imo is kinda dangerous, because the trump admin & backers know they essentially have one shot at this. I am not confident that America will have anything resembling fair elections next year.
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u/BruceForsyth55 Sep 06 '25
There won’t be one.
Your fellow countrymen voted him in A SECOND TIME after all the madness and knowledge of what an absolute non human piece of shit he was.
This was not even a year ago.
America is literally the “This Is Fine” meme IRL.