A report from the Democracy Policy Lab at UC Berkeley finds Americans are confused about the meaning and practices of democracy and deeply distrustful of public institutions — and each other. Strong “democracy policy” could help renew national bonds, the authors say.
It’s due to a large chunk of the people believing religiously indoctrinated to believe a text can be infallible.
If you start from that assumption, it’s a whole lot easier to understand why the constitution can be so rabidly defended from change and why the fantasy lore of its authors is rarely questioned.
You guys have a system set up by a bunch of random guys 3 centuries ago that you worship as gods and refuse to update. That might be part of it
The problem isn’t the system itself. The problem is that those random guys forgot to add in little things like consequences and what to do when someone violates it. The entire thing was written by a bunch of people who somehow forgot that they had JUST GOT INTO A WAR OVER THIS SHIT. It’s like the idea of tyranny somehow became a foreign concept that nobody would ever consider and everybody is going to be good to each other forever and ever and ever amen so there’s no need for consequences, right?
We’ve ignored key parts of it partly because of sentiment like yours.
So now the religious racist fascists have taken over and most of the rest of us aren’t armed. It was always the bad guys who mostly didn’t oppose guns.
And, particularly damning, neither side took action to deal with the underlying problem: mental health. By that I mean that ver half of ALL gun deaths are n the USA, every year, are from suicide. No magazine capacity limit, assault weapon ban, or background check will help that.
Neither side gives a fuck, preferring to use shootings as a political tool. “They’re coming for your guns!” helped elect Trump at least the first time, and “won’t someone think of the children?” is why I will soon need to apply for a permit just to be able to purchase a firearm in my state instead of universal health care.
tl;dr: Not nearly enough Democrats are armed and thus won’t be able to stop the fascist traitor racist criminal GQP.
So keep feeling smug, the planet has a way worse because people like you got your way and now a super power is evil.
You guys have a system set up by a bunch of random guys 3 centuries ago that you worship as gods and refuse to update. That might be part of it
No, I’d really like to update the document. But, everybody else thinks the constitution is infallible, so yeah, definitely one aspect of the problem.
It’s due to a large chunk of the people
believingreligiously indoctrinated to believe a text can be infallible.If you start from that assumption, it’s a whole lot easier to understand why the constitution can be so rabidly defended from change and why the fantasy lore of its authors is rarely questioned.
The problem isn’t the system itself. The problem is that those random guys forgot to add in little things like consequences and what to do when someone violates it. The entire thing was written by a bunch of people who somehow forgot that they had JUST GOT INTO A WAR OVER THIS SHIT. It’s like the idea of tyranny somehow became a foreign concept that nobody would ever consider and everybody is going to be good to each other forever and ever and ever amen so there’s no need for consequences, right?
This is something a Steve would say… NotSteve… 🤨
We’ve ignored key parts of it partly because of sentiment like yours.
So now the religious racist fascists have taken over and most of the rest of us aren’t armed. It was always the bad guys who mostly didn’t oppose guns.
And, particularly damning, neither side took action to deal with the underlying problem: mental health. By that I mean that ver half of ALL gun deaths are n the USA, every year, are from suicide. No magazine capacity limit, assault weapon ban, or background check will help that.
Neither side gives a fuck, preferring to use shootings as a political tool. “They’re coming for your guns!” helped elect Trump at least the first time, and “won’t someone think of the children?” is why I will soon need to apply for a permit just to be able to purchase a firearm in my state instead of universal health care.
tl;dr: Not nearly enough Democrats are armed and thus won’t be able to stop the fascist traitor racist criminal GQP.
So keep feeling smug, the planet has a way worse because people like you got your way and now a super power is evil.
Dude none of what you feel offended by was said in the comment you replied to.
Ah yes, the much revered Floundering Fathers of the Stateship Free Enterprise!