The fact that this presidential immunity question is being discussed in SCOTUS makes this nation look like the land of morons. Seriously.🙄
@StillIRise1963 Or the nation that wants to slide into totalitarianism.
An ever-present feature of all dictatorships is immunity for politicians. This legacy still poisons many Latin American countries that used to be ruled by dictators. The immunity laws are often still on the books. Why would politicians get rid of them?
Because of the history, many of the people take it for granted that politicians and judges have immunity.
This is gradually being fixed in places like Guatemala but it takes decades.
And here we are in the U.S.A. talking about it like it was a reasonable thing to consider and argue about. This is crazy. It's not.
@StillIRise1963 The unfortunate truth is that those people in Congress and on the Supreme Court are people that we the people are ultimately responsible for putting there. We allowed it.
I'm not saying you or I individually condoned or supported it but around half the population did. And quite a few of those want to go much farther toward the right. (They're ignorant and don't know what they're doing, but they think they do.)
I saw this in the population 30 years ago and more. The U.S. is full of nasty entitled people, bigots, racists, xenophobes, people who want the U.S. world hegemony that we've enjoyed since WW2 to translate into us forcing our will on the rest of the world.
I've spent a lot of time out in the world and in so-called third-world countries. I was constantly embarrassed by "ugly Americans".
Anyway, we have a huge problem in this country. A large fraction of the population is under the sway of right-wing media. They're addicted to it and get their fix every day. And, they all vote.
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant theme throughout U.S. history. "My ignorance is just as good as your knowledge and this is proven by the fact that my vote counts just as much as yours." So you can be darned sure they all vote. Voting is the great equalizer for stupid people.
The disadvantage liberals have is we all think for ourselves so organizing liberals is like trying to herd cats. Whereas right-wingers are accustomed to regimentation and being told what to think, starting with their religion. So they easily fall into lock-step and goosestep their way to electoral victory. Modern technology has made it very easy to organize these people. How to fix it is not at all clear to me because the fundamental need is for education, and that takes generations to fix. I really don't know how we're going to dig our way out of this mess.
@shuttersparks What does “the nation WANTS to mean?” Who is “the nation?"