Americans born in the USA do not have experience with coups. I am a naturalized citizen ,my home country is Argentina and from day one I saw the current US status as a coup in slow motion: it started on Jan 6 2021, it continued on July 1st 2024-SCOTUS gave inmunity to the Executive -and continues until now since Jan 20th 2025. People can still protest, the judges are sueing the Government..until when?? Do we surrender to racists crooks or not?
Whether one sees the "big" picture and uses fancier language or whether one speaks about the effects on daily life, in both cases I think people view the responsibility to be on the people in government. People make laws. People legislate policies. People attempt to destroy or promulgate policies. It thus does make sense that voting in different people is seen as the most effective way for citizens to speak up and out.
I could not agree more. I always thought that Hillary Clinton's downfall was her sophistication, and her habit of speaking in paragraphs instead of vivid and relatable statements (and being a woman certainly did not help either.) Democrats still do the same thing--but nuances do not win elections. Prices are up, and we are the ones paying for the tariffs. Trump is making America poorer, sicker, and if we feel unsafe, it is because we are.
Loss of democracy starts in our states. When we elect activist judges to our state supreme courts more often than not we see results from previous elections or the usual legal systems in place get overturned without our permission or us voting to change it. Example: state supreme court in Missouri overturned abortion rights when it was voted to be legal in that state in 2024. IVF which was always legal in Alabama is essentially no longer legal despite the state legislature trying to undo all the damage the state supreme court caused. Any mishap that occurs during the process whether intentional or not can be cause for a civil lawsuit even if they can’t charge you criminally. Why would anybody want to have this procedure in Alabama when no protections for civil liability exist? The judicial activism is occurring more often in Red states than Blue states it seems. A conservative court is every bit as corrupt if not more so than a liberal court.
I do not ever see what has happened in Alabama changing at all unless every right wing Christian Fundamentalist is voted out of the Supreme Court, the state legislature and the Governor’s office. This is the disconnect you’re talking about. A justice that went along with Chief Justice Tom Parker got elected in his place as the new chief justice and should have been promptly voted out.Parker is who referred to frozen embryos as “Extrauterine Children” which is nonsense. Unless we have a house cleaning and vote these people out or impeach them when we need to then we can lose our democracy at least temporarily if not permanently.
Americans born in the USA do not have experience with coups. I am a naturalized citizen ,my home country is Argentina and from day one I saw the current US status as a coup in slow motion: it started on Jan 6 2021, it continued on July 1st 2024-SCOTUS gave inmunity to the Executive -and continues until now since Jan 20th 2025. People can still protest, the judges are sueing the Government..until when?? Do we surrender to racists crooks or not?
Whether one sees the "big" picture and uses fancier language or whether one speaks about the effects on daily life, in both cases I think people view the responsibility to be on the people in government. People make laws. People legislate policies. People attempt to destroy or promulgate policies. It thus does make sense that voting in different people is seen as the most effective way for citizens to speak up and out.
I could not agree more. I always thought that Hillary Clinton's downfall was her sophistication, and her habit of speaking in paragraphs instead of vivid and relatable statements (and being a woman certainly did not help either.) Democrats still do the same thing--but nuances do not win elections. Prices are up, and we are the ones paying for the tariffs. Trump is making America poorer, sicker, and if we feel unsafe, it is because we are.
“Sense of unease” and “scary”. Says it all for me.
Observing local government in action -- and responding to what they say and do - can be acts of living democracy. See, jcaverleyhamilton.substack.com/great-lake-views/p/what-is-this-attack-on-dei-all-about.
Loss of democracy starts in our states. When we elect activist judges to our state supreme courts more often than not we see results from previous elections or the usual legal systems in place get overturned without our permission or us voting to change it. Example: state supreme court in Missouri overturned abortion rights when it was voted to be legal in that state in 2024. IVF which was always legal in Alabama is essentially no longer legal despite the state legislature trying to undo all the damage the state supreme court caused. Any mishap that occurs during the process whether intentional or not can be cause for a civil lawsuit even if they can’t charge you criminally. Why would anybody want to have this procedure in Alabama when no protections for civil liability exist? The judicial activism is occurring more often in Red states than Blue states it seems. A conservative court is every bit as corrupt if not more so than a liberal court.
I do not ever see what has happened in Alabama changing at all unless every right wing Christian Fundamentalist is voted out of the Supreme Court, the state legislature and the Governor’s office. This is the disconnect you’re talking about. A justice that went along with Chief Justice Tom Parker got elected in his place as the new chief justice and should have been promptly voted out.Parker is who referred to frozen embryos as “Extrauterine Children” which is nonsense. Unless we have a house cleaning and vote these people out or impeach them when we need to then we can lose our democracy at least temporarily if not permanently.