The "early destruction of our democracy"? Democracy has been under attack since the founding, and the attack has been center stage at least since the Civil War. I'm still struggling to understand why so many people didn't catch on till Trump was elected the first time.
The "early destruction of our democracy"? Democracy has been under attack since the founding, and the attack has been center stage at least since the Civil War. I'm still struggling to understand why so many people didn't catch on till Trump was elected the first time.
Susanna, of course our "democracy" has always been in danger as all the democracies of history have been! That is why Franklin said, "A Republic, if you can keep it!" But the two greatest crises we have faced were the Civil War and now electing a convicted felon. The other struggles were minor struggles in comparison. Never before did we have a candidate deny the legitimacy of the election, unless he won. Never before did we have a man who led an insurrection trying to overthrow our nation and actually declare he was out to destroy the government he was elected to and declare he would not obey the parts of the US Constitution he did not like. Not sure what you are confused about since America NEVER experienced this previously since the Civil War. When did SCOTUS ever violate the founders' check and balances like this, making a president immune?!?!?Your note makes little sense. And it all gives meaning to Mencken's "You will never lose money underestimating the intelligence of the American voter." [paraphrased]
You do know you're talking like a white person, yes? You're right, Trump is unique in how openly anti-democratic he is, but the history of anti-democracy in the U.S. goes back to the founding. Democracy showed strength after the Civil War, before the same old suspects shut it down by killing Reconstruction and instituting Jim Crow in the South and a dressed-up version in most other places. Democracy made a comeback after WWII, culminating in the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts of the mid-1960s -- after which the real long-term backlash got underway. There have been some steps forward in the course of the long slide back to a (long-gone if not totally imaginary) world where white Christian men were in charge, but it's not hard to see how we got to where we are.
The "early destruction of our democracy"? Democracy has been under attack since the founding, and the attack has been center stage at least since the Civil War. I'm still struggling to understand why so many people didn't catch on till Trump was elected the first time.
Susanna, of course our "democracy" has always been in danger as all the democracies of history have been! That is why Franklin said, "A Republic, if you can keep it!" But the two greatest crises we have faced were the Civil War and now electing a convicted felon. The other struggles were minor struggles in comparison. Never before did we have a candidate deny the legitimacy of the election, unless he won. Never before did we have a man who led an insurrection trying to overthrow our nation and actually declare he was out to destroy the government he was elected to and declare he would not obey the parts of the US Constitution he did not like. Not sure what you are confused about since America NEVER experienced this previously since the Civil War. When did SCOTUS ever violate the founders' check and balances like this, making a president immune?!?!?Your note makes little sense. And it all gives meaning to Mencken's "You will never lose money underestimating the intelligence of the American voter." [paraphrased]
You do know you're talking like a white person, yes? You're right, Trump is unique in how openly anti-democratic he is, but the history of anti-democracy in the U.S. goes back to the founding. Democracy showed strength after the Civil War, before the same old suspects shut it down by killing Reconstruction and instituting Jim Crow in the South and a dressed-up version in most other places. Democracy made a comeback after WWII, culminating in the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts of the mid-1960s -- after which the real long-term backlash got underway. There have been some steps forward in the course of the long slide back to a (long-gone if not totally imaginary) world where white Christian men were in charge, but it's not hard to see how we got to where we are.