• ChokingHazard@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    This quote applies when we’re dealing with the systemic wealth and justice gap we have in the US: "Laws are threats made by the dominant socioeconomic-ethnic group in a given nation. It’s just the promise of violence that’s enacted and the police are basically an occupying army.”

    Democracy is pretty great but it’s clear the laws and framework we have don’t support democracy in the idea of what is popular is what we’ll have.

    • HubertManne@piefed.social
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      3 days ago

      Most of what we have does support democracy but its the enforcement which is dictatorship. congress does not impeach trump the courts make decisions ignoring all precedence. Rulings like citizens united and laws like the patriot act are poison pills mucking up the well along with the important regulations being removed like taking out keystones from the structure.